Sensor is seen on a vehicle at Aeva Inc, a Mountain View, California-based startup that makes lidar sensors to help self-driving vehicles see the road in an undated handout photo provided September 4, 2020.
Courtesy of Aeva Inc/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 8 (Reuters) - Aeva Technologies (AEVA.N) on Wednesday said it has inked a deal to supply May Mobility with a key sensor for its self-driving shuttles.
Silicon Valley-based Aeva has developed what is known as a lidar sensor that helps self-driving vehicles gain a detailed, long-range view of the road.
Under the deal, Aeva will supply multiple sensors for "thousands" of May Mobility vehicles through 2028, Aeva Chief Executive Officer Soroush Salehian told Reuters in an interview.
He said May Mobility will need to rewrite some of its software to use the Aeva sensors but that they will eventually improve the long-range sensing of its shuttles, which are based on Toyota Sienna minivans.
Persons:
Cruise, Soroush Salehian, Edwin Olson, Olson, Stephen Nellis, Mark Potter
Organizations:
Aeva Inc, REUTERS, Aeva Technologies, Mobility, Motors, Japan's Nippon, Telephone, NTT, Toyota, Aeva, Reuters, May Mobility, Toyota Sienna, San, Thomson
Locations:
, California, Silicon, Michigan, San Francisco