Leading world automotive know-how firm Luminar and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team in the present day 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 Safety Car with that work starting in 2024.
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LiDAR, which stands for Light and Detection Ranging, makes use of lasers to create a extremely detailed 3D map of the encircling setting. Luminar’s LiDAR and AI software program uniquely allow exact object detection at increased speeds and below antagonistic driving circumstances. Luminar’s know-how is constructed from the chip-level up, and at the next wavelength that enables it to see street particles as much as 250 meters and objects as much as 500 meters forward.
The capability to detect nonetheless and shifting objects at excessive speeds and below wide-ranging circumstances makes Luminar’s LiDAR a wonderful match for the Official FIA F1 Safety Car. Luminar and Mercedes-AMG will work collectively to combine Luminar’s know-how into the roofline of the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series.
Once operational, and topic to Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and Formula 1 regulatory compliance and approval, and in compliance with the FIA Formula 1 laws, the sensor would create a real-time 3D map of the setting forward of the FIA F1 Safety Car, notably enhancing the security automotive driver’s capability 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 all the time been about pushing the boundaries of efficiency whereas enhancing automotive security – and with F1, Mercedes-AMG is taking it to the intense on a world stage of automotive fanatics. 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 Team, demonstrating efficiency and security benefits at any pace from the town to the autobahn to the monitor.
Markus Schäfer, Mercedes-Benz AG Chief Technology Officer & Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team Non-Executive Chairman, commented:
The partnership with our Formula 1 staff is a pure extension of Mercedes-Benz’s present collaboration with Luminar to assist understand our imaginative and prescient for accident-free driving in Mercedes manufacturing automobiles. Mercedes-Benz has all the time been on the forefront of innovation and security, and we look ahead to persevering with our growth efforts with Luminar to deliver this know-how to our F1 staff.
Toto Wolff, CEO and Team Principal, added:
I’m delighted that we’ve got launched this new partnership with Luminar. I’ve been totally impressed by their journey thus far, their know-how and the work they’ve completed. It is a genuinely thrilling and progressive space that may have extra far-reaching implications for the automotive business 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 matches extremely nicely with our ethos and values, so this can be a pure collaboration.
The Official FIA F1 Safety Car, the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series, geared up with an preliminary idea for the Luminar LiDAR roof integration, is on show in Luminar’s sales space, West Hall 5917, at CES 2024 starting Tuesday, January ninth at midday PT by way of Friday, January twelfth.
About Luminar
Luminar is a worldwide 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 business companions, together with most world automotive OEMs. From client automobile packages with Volvo Cars 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.
