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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Luminar's Austin Russell envisions lidar as a ‘21st century seatbelt’ (Episode 148)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.831 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies lays out lidar’s role in dramatically reducing traffic deaths, the company’s march toward industrialization and a new deal with Nissan that brings lidar to the mass market.

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0:00.0

For more than 130 years, Borg Warner has brought cutting-edge mobility solutions to the automotive industry.

0:07.0

Now they're leading the charge to e-mobility, starting with a pledge to be carbon neutral by 2035.

0:14.4

To learn more about their innovative solutions,

0:16.8

visit Borg Warner.com. Hi everyone. Welcome to Shift, the podcast about mobility. I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

0:37.0

Joining me on the podcast today, I am pleased to welcome Loominor founder and CEO Austin Russell.

0:42.0

I've wanted to have Austin on the podcast for a while now.

0:46.0

Back in January you may remember that Loominar had a really jarring demo at CES, which showcased how cars equipped with LIDAR perform in safety

0:56.6

critical scenarios compared to those that don't have LITAR. So I'm not going to give

1:00.9

this away but that demo is pretty disquieting.

1:03.2

More recently, Loominar has a ground-baking new partnership with Nissan

1:07.9

to put that kind of safety technology pretty much throughout Nissan's entire lineup by 2030.

1:14.0

It's a really important development for the auto industry.

1:17.0

So those two topics and more are the subject of my conversation with Austin.

1:21.0

Without further ado, let's go to that now.

1:25.0

Austin, welcome to the podcast.

1:27.0

Thanks for having me.

1:28.7

Well, why don't we start with your latest news?

1:31.8

It was just a week or two ago that Nominar unveiled a significant and deep partnership with Nissan.

1:38.0

What is the scope of your work that you're doing with them?

1:42.0

So we're working together in collaborating on this next generation assisted driving system to have that's focused around next gen safety, you know, forward vehicles and specifically a Nissan vehicles.

1:54.1

And really the opportunity that they see

1:56.6

and have an ambition is to be able to dramatically

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