The company Voxtel swallows Allegro and relies on eye-friendly lidar sensors.
At CES 2019 a Camera when taking photos of the lidar broken. The news quickly made the rounds and made it clear that the laser light from lidar sensors is not harmless.
Lidar sensor on the roof
The human eye is susceptible to light at one wavelength, but not at other wavelengths. However, these wavelengths, which can be dangerous, increase the range of the sensor.
The enterprise Allegro wants to achieve this, but still secure the lidar sensors. For this purpose, Allegro has now taken over the lighting specialist Voxtel from the US state Oregon. With their expertise, the aim is to develop lidar for assistance systems and autonomous driving that leaves the human eye undamaged.
This relies on hardware made of silicon and the semiconductor material indium gallium arsenide, which is abbreviated to InGaAs. You can use wavelengths from 1,500 to 1,600 nanometers, which bring more power.
According to the magazine all-electronics.de, this goal is to be achieved by combining the competencies of the two companies. Other companies want the lidar omit completelywho is the most important representative of this perspective Tesla.
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