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The development of advanced lidar and AI-based machine vision has received a boost after Honda Ventures invests in SiLC Technologies to develop integrated single-chip solutions.

With radar and 2D or 3D vision systems finding it hard to distinguish between stationary and slow-moving objects, and even to detect dark objects (such as tires) at distances over a few hundred metres, the technology is not well suited to safe and trustworthy autonomous driving. The majority of time-of-flight lidar solutions, meanwhile, can be affected by interference…