Bosch is finally making Lidar sensors for autonomous cars

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One of my buddies recently told me he’s joining Bosh to work in their self-driving unit. I was asking “what self driving unit?”. Apparently, he’s on the team building Lidars.

Bosch is focusing both on mass producing better and/or cheaper hardware components that self-driving cars need. They also have a smaller team to build self-driving cars, dogfooding/prototyping newer components.

Them entering this industry shows that they - unsurprisingly - anticipate large demand.

Bosch is tier 1 supplier of components and parts to OEMs like VW, Daimler etc. they are already making Radar and camera sensors and systems. Every component supplier is into self driving development as they provide these Algos along with their sensors and systems. Their competitors in this space include DELPHI, continental, autoliv etc

No surprise, bosch is the leading tier 1 automotive supplier who got hit hard by the vw gate and the slump in diesel engines. Electric and autonomous car (which then will lead to easier car sharing) are going to put a huge dent in their business, so they need to invest in them

Anyone know how far along Luminar[1] is with their affordable lidar?

[1] https://www.luminartech.com

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