Recently, the race to present a long detection range system in the automotive LiDAR industry has heated up.
Velodyne boasted the detection ranges of a 10% reflective target from 50m achieved by the veteran HDL-64E to 265m by the recent Alpha Prime. At the same time, Luminar is promising to detect 10% reflective objects at 250m with the Iris system. Moreover, Argo AI’s LiDAR system is designed to detect “dark objects” at 400m. Yet, arguably, the current record is held by AEye’s “iDAR” that can detect two vehicles at a remarkable distance of 1000m, as detailed in VSI labs’ test report.