Once a supplement to basic safety systems, LiDAR has evolved into a cornerstone of driverless truck hardware, powering the leap from assisted driving to fully autonomous freight operations.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about bleeding edge automotive technology. There is a long running debate in the realm of autonomous vehicles about ...

Alex Davies covers autonomous vehicles and other transportation machines for WIRED. “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed,” Musk said at Tesla’s inaugural “Autonomy Day” in April. “It’s like having a ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has frequently lampooned lidar, a sensor that most other automakers and technology companies say is essential for self-driving vehicles. "They're all going to dump lidar is my ...

If you've been in Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco, or any of the other cities where autonomous cars are crawling the streets in a 21st century version of drivers ed, maybe you've ...

Teradar on Wednesday said it raised $150 million and unveiled a new "terahertz-vision" sensor that it says could disrupt the automotive radar and lidar market by making all-weather, high-resolution ...

It’s Friday and the world is falling apart, so let’s just take a short mental health break with some interesting news out of the field of archaeology, where tech is enabling some fascinating new ...

The Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC) at the University of Wyoming has launched the Wyoming LiDAR (light detection and ranging) Data Portal, providing unprecedented public access ...

Following reports dating back to February, XPeng Motors appears to be genuinely beginning a transition from LiDAR sensors to pure vision cameras in advanced driver systems. The ADAS technology, ...

Self-driving cars currently need a lot of hand-holding to get around, with even Waymo's machines relying on lidar, custom rules and highly detailed maps to know exactly where to go. Wayve, however, ...