Cruise, the self-driving startup acquired by General Motors last year, is now gobbling up companies of its own. Today, the company announced its plan to buy Strobe, a startup that makes LIDAR sensors that help autonomous vehicles “see” their surroundings.
The particularly attractive thing about Strobe, according to Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, is that it has successfully reduced the LIDAR array down to a single chip, which will help reduce production costs by nearly 100 percent. This will help speed the manufacturing and deployment of self-driving cars to all communities, such as suburban and rural areas “where ride sharing is less common today,” Vogt said in a post on Medium.
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