Main international automotive know-how firm Luminar and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Workforce right this moment introduced a brand new strategic collaboration that may leverage Luminar’s present growth work with Mercedes-Benz to combine Luminar’s know-how into the Official FIA F1 Security Automotive with that work starting in 2024.
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LiDAR, which stands for Gentle and Detection Ranging, makes use of lasers to create a extremely detailed 3D map of the encompassing atmosphere. Luminar’s LiDAR and AI software program uniquely allow exact object detection at increased speeds and below hostile driving situations. Luminar’s know-how is constructed from the chip-level up, and at a better wavelength that enables it to see highway particles as much as 250 meters and objects as much as 500 meters forward.
The power to detect nonetheless and shifting objects at excessive speeds and below wide-ranging situations makes Luminar’s LiDAR a superb match for the Official FIA F1 Security Automotive. Luminar and Mercedes-AMG will work collectively to combine Luminar’s know-how into the roofline of the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Collection.
As soon as operational, and topic to Fédération Internationale de l’Car (FIA) and Method 1 regulatory compliance and approval, and in compliance with the FIA Method 1 rules, the sensor would create a real-time 3D map of the atmosphere forward of the FIA F1 Security Automotive, notably enhancing the security automobile driver’s capability to evaluate the scenario on the observe whereas sustaining the required excessive speeds.
Austin Russell, Founder and CEO of Luminar, stated:
Luminar’s know-how has at all times been about pushing the bounds of efficiency whereas enhancing automotive security – and with F1, Mercedes-AMG is taking it to the acute on a world stage of automotive fans. The identical main know-how developed in partnership with Mercedes-Benz for his or her manufacturing vehicles shall be shared with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Workforce, demonstrating efficiency and security benefits at any pace from the town to the autobahn to the observe.
Markus Schäfer, Mercedes-Benz AG Chief Expertise Officer & Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Workforce Non-Govt Chairman, commented:
The partnership with our Method 1 staff is a pure extension of Mercedes-Benz’s present collaboration with Luminar to assist notice our imaginative and prescient for accident-free driving in Mercedes manufacturing vehicles. Mercedes-Benz has at all times been on the forefront of innovation and security, and we stay up for persevering with our growth efforts with Luminar to convey this know-how to our F1 staff.
Toto Wolff, CEO and Workforce Principal, added:
I’m delighted that we have now launched this new partnership with Luminar. I’ve been totally impressed by their journey to date, their know-how and the work they’ve accomplished. It’s a genuinely thrilling and revolutionary space that may have extra far-reaching implications for the automotive trade and mobility. Our collaboration will make the most of the preliminary growth work between Luminar and Mercedes-Benz as a bedrock, and I’m excited to see how we will construct on that. Luminar’s tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship additionally suits extremely nicely with our ethos and values, so it is a pure collaboration.
The Official FIA F1 Security Automotive, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Collection, outfitted with an preliminary idea for the Luminar LiDAR roof integration, is on show in Luminar’s sales space, West Corridor 5917, at CES 2024 starting Tuesday, January ninth at midday PT by Friday, January twelfth.
About Luminar
Luminar is a world automotive know-how firm ushering in a brand new period of auto security and autonomy. Luminar has constructed a sophisticated {hardware} and software program/AI platform for the previous decade to allow its greater than 50 trade companions, together with most international automotive OEMs. From shopper automobile applications with Volvo Automobiles and Mercedes-Benz to know-how partnerships together with NVIDIA and Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the primary automotive know-how firm to allow next-generation security and autonomous capabilities for international manufacturing automobiles.
