The Solid-State Lidar system will be provided by a Lidar Startup company that has been around since 2016. The company's name is CEPTON.
Solid-State Lidar is much less expensive and easier to implement than larger Lidar systems that spin and use mirrors.
This will allow the Celestiq to travel...
The reason we need multiple efforts on autonomous driving, is not all of them will be successful. Combining efforts could lead to them all going down a dead end.
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/10/general-motors-acquires-lidar-developer-to-bolster-self-driving-car-business/
“Strobe’s deep engineering talent and technology backed by numerous patents will play a significant role in helping GM and Cruise bring these vehicles to market sooner than many...