Main world automotive know-how firm Luminar and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Group in the present day introduced a brand new strategic collaboration that may leverage Luminar’s current growth work with Mercedes-Benz to combine Luminar’s know-how into the Official FIA F1 Security Automobile with that work starting in 2024.
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LiDAR, which stands for Mild and Detection Ranging, makes use of lasers to create a extremely detailed 3D map of the encompassing setting. Luminar’s LiDAR and AI software program uniquely allow exact object detection at greater speeds and underneath hostile driving situations. Luminar’s know-how is constructed from the chip-level up, and at a better wavelength that permits it to see street particles as much as 250 meters and objects as much as 500 meters forward.
The power to detect nonetheless and transferring objects at excessive speeds and underneath wide-ranging situations makes Luminar’s LiDAR a superb match for the Official FIA F1 Security Automobile. Luminar and Mercedes-AMG will work collectively to combine Luminar’s know-how into the roofline of the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Sequence.
As soon as operational, and topic to Fédération Internationale de l’Vehicle (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 setting forward of the FIA F1 Security Automobile, notably enhancing the protection automobile driver’s means to evaluate the state of affairs on the monitor 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 boundaries of efficiency whereas enhancing automotive security – and with F1, Mercedes-AMG is taking it to the acute on a world stage of automotive lovers. The identical main know-how developed in partnership with Mercedes-Benz for his or her manufacturing automobiles can be shared with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Group, demonstrating efficiency and security benefits at any velocity from town to the autobahn to the monitor.
Markus Schäfer, Mercedes-Benz AG Chief Know-how Officer & Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Group Non-Govt Chairman, commented:
The partnership with our Method 1 workforce is a pure extension of Mercedes-Benz’s current collaboration with Luminar to assist notice our imaginative and prescient for accident-free driving in Mercedes manufacturing automobiles. Mercedes-Benz has at all times been on the forefront of innovation and security, and we look ahead to persevering with our growth efforts with Luminar to convey this know-how to our F1 workforce.
Toto Wolff, CEO and Group Principal, added:
I’m delighted that we’ve launched this new partnership with Luminar. I’ve been totally impressed by their journey to this point, their know-how and the work they’ve finished. It’s a genuinely thrilling and modern 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 are able to 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 Automobile, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Sequence, 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 complicated {hardware} and software program/AI platform for the previous decade to allow its greater than 50 trade companions, together with most world automotive OEMs. From shopper automobile packages with Volvo Vehicles 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 world manufacturing autos.
