Autonomous Trucks
Luminar is a global automotive technology company helping to usher in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. Luminar views lidar as the next key turning point to vehicle safety just as seatbelts and airbags were key turning points in vehicle safety decades ago. This week, Luminar announced an extensive expansion of its partnership with Mercedes-Benz to safely enable enhanced automated driving capabilities across a broad range of next-generation production vehicle lines as part of the automaker’s next-generation lineup. Iris is a high performance, long-range lidar sensor that enables advanced safety and autonomy for car, commercial trucks and more. Luminar says that after two years of close collaboration between the two companies, Mercedes-Benz now plans to integrate the next generation of Luminar’s Iris lidar and its associated software technology across a broad range of its next-generation production vehicle lines by mid-decade.