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☆ Automakers are finally embracing lidar sensors. A few startups look like market-share winners
  + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( John Rosevear | In Jrosevear | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
In this article INVZLAZROUSTINVZLAZROUST Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Hesai lidar sensor on top of a vehicle in Shenzhen, China, July 10, 2022. Jade Gao | AFP | Getty ImagesFor investors in lidar startups, this has been a long time coming. After years of talk — and a SPAC boom in the sensor sector — automakers have finally started incorporating lidar units into their vehicles. Lidar, short for light detection and ranging, is a sensor technology that uses invisible lasers to create a detailed 3D map of the sensor's surroundings. Playing into investors' intense interest in self-driving technology, many lidar startups went public via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, over the last few years.
Persons: LAZR, INVZ LAZR, Jade Gao, They're, Luminar, —, Omer Keilaf, Keilaf, Innoviz, Austin Russell, Russell, we'll, Tom Fennimore Organizations: AFP, Getty, BMW, Volkswagen, Refinitiv, Volvo, Polestar, Benz, Luminar Technologies, Bloomberg Locations: Shenzhen, China, Germany, U.S, SPACs, Orlando , Florida
☆ Luminar CFO defends lidar maker's pricing and revenue in the wake of a Goldman downgrade
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( John Rosevear | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
A Mercedes-Benz van retrofitted with different types of lidar systems, including Luminar's Iris, to showcase the differences in the technologies. Lidar maker Luminar Technologies , stung by a recent Wall Street downgrade, is responding in an unusual way: taking its case directly to the shareholders. "We continue to see Luminar as one of a handful of leaders in the very competitive lidar industry," Delaney wrote. "'Premium pricing' isn't a theoretical concept we are forecasting, but an achievement we have already made in our major customer contracts," Fennimore wrote in the shareholder letter. And the second point Fennimore says Goldman missed: The time frame Delaney chose to compare Luminar's valuation against those of its rivals.
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