Category: Official Press Release

Press: Update on ZF Friedrichshafen AG’s strategic focus on commercial vehicle brakes

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AEye: Developing Artificial Perception Technologies That Exceed Human Perception

Nothing can take in more information and process it faster and more accurately than the human visual cortex…until now. Humans classify complex objects at speeds up to 27Hz, with the brain processing 580 megapixels of data in as little as 13 milliseconds. While conventional LiDAR sensors on autonomous vehicles average around a 10Hz frame rate and revisit rate, iDAR sensors can achieve a frame rate in excess of 100Hz (>3x human vision), and an object revisit rate of >500Hz.
So what?A single interrogation point rarely delivers sufficient confidence – it is only suggestive. That’s why LiDAR systems must capture multiple detects of the same object to fully comprehend it, making the speed of subsequent interrogations/detects (the object revisit rate) significantly more critical to autonomous vehicle safety than frame rate alone. For conventional LiDAR sensors, the object revisit rate is the frame rate.
AEye’s iDAR not only has the ability to revisit an object within a single frame, it can revisit multiple points/objects of interest. The achievable object revisit rate of AEye’s iDAR system for objects of interest is microseconds to a few milliseconds – which can be up to 3000x faster, compared to conventional LiDAR systems that typically require hundreds of milliseconds between revisits.
Reducing the time between object detections within the same frame is critical, as shorter object revisit times keep processing times low for advanced algorithms that correlate multiple moving objects in a scene.
“iDAR takes the guesswork out of artificial perception and replaces it with actionable data.” – Dr. Allan Steinhardt, AEye Chief Scientist

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McLaren North America relocates corporate headquarters from New York to Coppell, Texas

12 Sep 2019 North American HQ moves from NY City to high tech facility in Texas industrial park Continued growth of brand in supercar market requires larger facility with greater storage and service capacity 27 strong retailer network to benefit from a more centrally based HQ and enhanced technical and customer service support McLaren North… Continue reading McLaren North America relocates corporate headquarters from New York to Coppell, Texas

Uber Announces Pricing of Upsized $1.2 Billion Senior Notes Offering

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced the pricing of $1.2 billion principal amount of 7.500% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “notes”). The principal amount of the offering was increased from the previously announced offering size of $750 million. The notes are being offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional… Continue reading Uber Announces Pricing of Upsized $1.2 Billion Senior Notes Offering

Baojun Launches RM-5 and RC-6 in Chengdu

Baojun Launches RM-5 and RC-6 in Chengdu 2019-09-05 CHENGDU – Baojun today launched the RM-5 MPV and RC-6 sedan under its new diamond logo at the Chengdu Motor Show 2019. Equipped with industry-leading connectivity and class-leading driver-assistance technology, the two new nameplates represent Baojun’s latest intelligent mobility solutions. The RM-5 and RC-6 provide a new… Continue reading Baojun Launches RM-5 and RC-6 in Chengdu

BMW i Ventures’ Investment in Trifacta

September 12 2019 – We are excited to announce our investment in Trifacta, the leader in data cleaning and transformation. Trifacta provides a data wrangling software platform that enables data scientists, engineers and business analysts to accelerate data projects by using machine learning to recommend and ultimately automate the range of data transformations that data… Continue reading BMW i Ventures’ Investment in Trifacta

Lyft Level 5 Self-Driving Dataset Competition Now Open

By: Vinay Shet, Director, Product Management The Lyft Level 5 team recently released a self-driving dataset with several tens of thousands of human-labeled 3D annotated frames and a semantic map, along with associated lidar frames and camera imagery. Today, we’re thrilled to launch a Kaggle competition with this dataset on 3D object detection over a… Continue reading Lyft Level 5 Self-Driving Dataset Competition Now Open

General Motors’ New In-Vehicle Technology Strengthens Connectivity Leadership and Enhances Customer Experience

General Motors’ New In-Vehicle Technology Strengthens Connectivity Leadership and Enhances Customer Experience Integration of Google’s Voice Assistant, Navigation and App Ecosystem to Launch in GM Infotainment Systems in 2021 2019-09-05 DETROIT – Building on nearly 25 years of connectivity leadership, General Motors today announced plans to introduce new in-vehicle technology that will enhance the overall… Continue reading General Motors’ New In-Vehicle Technology Strengthens Connectivity Leadership and Enhances Customer Experience