Head of Legal, Aeva

Aeva builds sensory perception technology that maps the physical world around a vehicle on a granular basis to contribute towards the development of fully self-driving cars. The sensory system relies on what the company describes as being the world’s first 4D LiDAR-on-Chip. This technology comprises sensors that detect objects and events up to 300m away, recognize velocity-per-pixel, and are immune to interference from neighbouring frequencies.

Companies such as Tesla are already developing successful and safe fully self-driving software for their cars, but Aeva's approach to LiDAR presents some serious competition to the existing camera-based technology. Despite further competition from Luminar and Velodyne, Aeva remains unique and has even secured a partnership with NVIDIA to integrate its 4D LiDAR into the DRIVE Hyperion autonomous vehicle platform, placing its technology at the core of how future self-driving cars will see, understand, and safely navigate the road.