Main international automotive expertise firm Luminar and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Group immediately introduced a brand new strategic collaboration that may leverage Luminar’s current improvement work with Mercedes-Benz to combine Luminar’s expertise into the Official FIA F1 Safety Car 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 surroundings. Luminar’s LiDAR and AI software program uniquely allow exact object detection at increased speeds and below opposed driving situations. Luminar’s expertise is constructed from the chip-level up, and at the next 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 transferring objects at excessive speeds and below wide-ranging situations makes Luminar’s LiDAR a wonderful match for the Official FIA F1 Security Automobile. Luminar and Mercedes-AMG will work collectively to combine Luminar’s expertise 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 surroundings forward of the FIA F1 Security Automobile, notably enhancing the security automobile driver’s capacity to evaluate the scenario on the monitor whereas sustaining the required excessive speeds.
Austin Russell, Founder and CEO of Luminar, stated:
Luminar’s expertise has at all times been about pushing the bounds of efficiency whereas bettering automotive security – and with F1, Mercedes-AMG is taking it to the intense on a world stage of automotive fanatics. The identical main expertise developed in partnership with Mercedes-Benz for his or her manufacturing vehicles shall be shared with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Group, demonstrating efficiency and security benefits at any pace from the town to the autobahn to the monitor.
Markus Schäfer, Mercedes-Benz AG Chief Know-how Officer & Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Group Non-Government 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 vehicles. Mercedes-Benz has at all times been on the forefront of innovation and security, and we look ahead to persevering with our improvement efforts with Luminar to convey this expertise to our F1 workforce.
Toto Wolff, CEO and Group Principal, added:
I’m delighted that now we have launched this new partnership with Luminar. I’ve been totally impressed by their journey to date, their expertise and the work they’ve carried out. It’s a genuinely thrilling and revolutionary space that may have extra far-reaching implications for the automotive business and mobility. Our collaboration will make the most of the preliminary improvement 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 properly with our ethos and values, so it is a pure collaboration.
The Official FIA F1 Security Automobile, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Sequence, geared up 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 via Friday, January twelfth.
About Luminar
Luminar is a worldwide automotive expertise 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 business companions, together with most international automotive OEMs. From client car applications with Volvo Vehicles and Mercedes-Benz to expertise partnerships together with NVIDIA and Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the primary automotive expertise firm to allow next-generation security and autonomous capabilities for international manufacturing autos.
