

The common thread between our two companies is that our technologies are becoming the de facto solution for major automakers to enable next-generation safety and autonomy. Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell says “Nvidia has led the modern compute revolution, and the industry sees them as doing the same with autonomous driving. The Iris’ custom lidar architecture is designed to meet the most stringent performance, safety and automotive-grade requirements to provide excellent safety as well as assisted and autonomous driving on production vehicles.

By offering automakers a qualified, complete sensor suite featuring Luminar’s lidar solution on top of Nvidia’s centralized high-performance compute and AI software, Drive Hyperion provides everything needed to develop production autonomous vehicles.ĭrive Hyperion will use one forward-facing long-range Luminar Iris lidar in its L 3 highway driving configuration. Shares of Luminar, which went public through a SPAC deal in December 2020, are down 11.3 this month. This AI vehicle computing platform accelerates development of autonomous consumer vehicles with planned production starting in 2024. Luminars stock closed Thursday at 15 a share, up 11.5. technology company Luminar, plans to offer fully autonomous highway driving capability on models starting in 2022. Luminar Technologies’ lidar solution has been selected to be part of the sensor suite in the Nvidia Drive Hyperion autonomous vehicle reference platform. Luminar Lidar Selected for NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Autonomous Vehicle Reference Platform Long-range lidar solution part of best-in-class sensor suite to help deliver safe, highly assisted and.
