Ex-Apple engineers unveil a next-generation sensor for self-driving cars

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Rezk tells me that with Aeva’s product, it is not sending out pulses of light at various intervals. Instead, the company’s LIDAR is continuous, allowing it to gather data faster and more directly, which is one of the key differentiating factors for its product, the company claims. “Everything here is a direct measurement rather than any algorithms involved,” Rezk says. “Our 4D LIDAR tech can measure the depth, reflectivity, and velocity in a single laser shot, all instantaneous. No need to spend time looking at frames.” Essentially, instead of feeding data into a central AI system that then tries to make sense of it all before making a decision, Aeva says its product does a lot of the laborious, measurement work right away.

Both men were careful to stress that this is not at all designed to be a fully comprehensive self-driving system. Although there is an element of computer vision working behind the scenes to dissect the live video and merge that information with the data from the other sensors, Aeva says its product will not operate a vehicle. It is not designed to do so, and any company that uses Aeva’s product will still need to develop the AI software necessary to operate a vehicle with little to no human intervention on its own.