Luminar Lidar Selected for NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Autonomous Vehicle Reference Platform
November 09 2021 - 4:30AM
Business Wire
Long-range lidar solution part of best-in-class
sensor suite to help deliver safe, highly assisted and full
self-driving capabilities
Luminar Technologies, Inc., the global leader in automotive
lidar hardware and software technology, announced today at the
NVIDIA GTC conference that its lidar solution has been selected to
be part of the sensor suite in the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion autonomous
vehicle reference platform. This AI vehicle computing platform
accelerates development of autonomous consumer vehicles with
planned production starting in 2024.
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Luminar Iris lidar for series production
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By offering automakers a qualified, complete sensor suite
featuring Luminar’s lidar solution, on top of NVIDIA’s centralized
high-performance compute and AI software, DRIVE Hyperion provides
everything needed to develop production autonomous vehicles.
DRIVE Hyperion will utilize one forward-facing long-range
Luminar Iris lidar in its Level 3 highway driving configuration.
Iris’ custom lidar architecture is designed to meet the most
stringent performance, safety and automotive-grade requirements to
enable next-generation safety as well as assisted and autonomous
driving on production vehicles.
“NVIDIA has led the modern compute revolution, and the industry
sees them as doing the same with autonomous driving,” said Austin
Russell, Founder and CEO of Luminar. “The common thread between our
two companies is that our technologies are becoming the de facto
solution for major automakers to enable next-generation safety and
autonomy. By taking advantage of our respective strengths,
automakers have access to the most advanced autonomous vehicle
development platform.”
“Our collaboration with Luminar bolsters the DRIVE ecosystem of
companies that are focused on building best-in-class technologies
for enabling autonomous driving functionalities,” said Gary Hicok,
Senior Vice President of Engineering, NVIDIA. “Luminar is
pioneering a unique, scalable solution that complements the NVIDIA
DRIVE Hyperion platform.”
About Luminar:
Luminar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAZR) is transforming
automotive safety and autonomy by delivering lidar and associated
software that meets the industry’s stringent performance, safety,
and economic requirements. Luminar has rapidly gained over 50
industry partners, including the majority of the global automotive
OEMs. In 2020, Luminar signed the industry’s first production deal
for autonomous consumer vehicles with Volvo Cars, which now expects
to make Luminar’s technology part of the standard safety package on
their next generation electric SUV. Additional customer wins
include SAIC, Daimler Truck AG, Intel’s Mobileye, Pony.ai and
Airbus UpNext. Founded in 2012, Luminar employs approximately 400
with offices in Palo Alto, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Detroit, and
Munich. For more information please visit www.luminartech.com.
Forward Looking Statement
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Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are
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“expect,” “should,” “would,” “forward,” and similar expressions
that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not
statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements
include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the
likelihood of series production of vehicles including NVIDIA’s
Drive Hyperion system including Luminar’s lidar, the capability of
NVIDIA’s Hyperion system including whether it is ready for series
production, its autonomous capabilities, and whether automakers
will need additional equipment for autonomy, and that Luminar’s
relationship with several automakers will result in series
production. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from the forward-looking statements including the risks
discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed by Luminar on April 14, 2021, the registration
statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-257989) filed with the SEC on July
16, 2021 and amendments thereto, and other documents Luminar files
with the SEC in the future. You are cautioned not to place undue
reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as
of the date made and Luminar undertakes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after
the date of this press release.
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