Five years ago, Eric Aguilar was fed up. He had worked on lidar and other sensors for years at Tesla and Google X, but the technology always seemed too expensive and, more importantly, unreliable. He ...

Elon Musk says self-driving cars only need to rely on cameras, and not other sensors like LiDAR. But Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says LiDAR is "definitely beneficial." Scaringe said LiDAR has become much ...

Researchers have engineered the ultimate nemesis of self-driving cars: mirror-adorned traffic cones. In a series of tests highlighted by The Register, a team from France and Germany showed that their ...

"It's a really great sensor that can do things that cameras can't," Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said of LiDAR.