https://www.luminartech.com/updates/polestar-4-to-integrate-luminar-lidar-with-mobileye-chauffeur
Polestar 4 is planned to be the first production car to feature Mobileye Chauffeur, now with Luminar LiDAR
November 09, 2023
Many of you have been asking about Polestar 4 since the Mobileye announcement a few months ago. Today we are happy to answer that question with the announcement that Polestar, Mobileye and Luminar intend to equip the Polestar 4 with Luminar LiDAR and Mobileye’s Chauffeur system.
This announcement is the result of our ongoing partnership not only with Polestar, but also with Mobileye. The Polestar 4 will be the third production vehicle that will use Luminar LiDAR. It is also the first announced passenger vehicle to be based on Mobileye’s Chauffeur system equipped with Luminar LiDAR.
This follows years of development work between Luminar and Mobileye on its Level 4 Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) product and Autonomous Vehicle series solution, and our work is now being leveraged into consumer production vehicles.
The official press release is included below. We have no doubt that this will be a fruitful partnership with both Polestar and Mobileye, and we look forward to future success and more to come.
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – November 9th, 2023 –
Polestar is working with Luminar, a leading automotive technology company, and Mobileye, a global leader in autonomous driving solutions, to enhance safety and the future autonomous driving capabilities of Polestar 4 with the integration of Luminar’s next-generation LiDAR technology with Mobileye’s Chauffeur platform.
Announced in August, Polestar 4 is planned to be the first production car to feature Mobileye Chauffeur, now with Luminar LiDAR, which builds upon the full-surround camera-based SuperVision platform available in Polestar 4 from launch. Together, the three companies aim to offer eyes-off, point-to point autonomous driving on highways, as well as eyes-on automated driving for other environments.
With Mobileye Chauffeur, Polestar 4 is set to feature three Mobileye EyeQ6 processors, a front-facing LiDAR from Luminar, and Mobileye’s front-facing imaging radar to provide the extra layer of sensing and artificial intelligence needed to enable eyes-off, hands-off driving.
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) uses lasers to create a highly detailed 3D map of the surrounding environment. Luminar’s LiDAR is uniquely engineered from chip-level up and with a higher wavelength, enabling the greatest level of performance and safety capabilities for production cars. When coupled with Mobileye’s Chauffeur platform, the result will be a turnkey, safer and high-performing automated system.
Building on the existing relationship between Luminar and Mobileye, the integration of Luminar LiDAR into Polestar 4 also expands the partnership between Luminar and Polestar which was announced in January 2023.
Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO, says: “Polestar 4 comes with the highly advanced Mobileye SuperVision ADAS from the start, and we look forward to expanding that with Mobileye Chauffeur in the future. Being able to add Luminar’s industry-leading LiDAR to the platform’s development increases the strong link between our companies and brings even more world-class technology to Polestar 4.”
Prof. Amnon Shashua, CEO of Mobileye, says: “Combining our base SuperVision with an independent second redundant perception system – consisting of Luminar LiDAR, radars and an imaging radar – enables true redundancy and a level of accuracy that lays the foundation for fully autonomous driving.”
Austin Russell, founder and CEO of Luminar, says: “After collaborating with Mobileye on a solution since 2019, the true fruits of our labour with them are being realised for the first time by transitioning out of R&D and into a production vehicle with Polestar. Together, we look forward to raising the benchmark in the industry for what a safe and autonomous future can look like.”
