The company is providing LED-based lidar systems to French supplier Valeo, which also buys vision-based systems from Mobileye. But regulators are also concerned that drivers could be lulled into unsafe behavior by systems that take control for a time, but expect human operators to re-take command in an emergency.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the role of Autopilot in the Florida accident and another crash in Pennsylvania involving a Tesla vehicle.Delphi Automotive PLC plans to build lidar vision systems with technology from Quanergy Systems, which makes solid state lidar systems.2-billion acquisition earlier this yeag systems. Automakers are stepping up orders as lidar systems come down in size and price, she said.Germany's Robert Bosch, which has been developing self-driving components and systems for more than 15 years, buys lidar from an unnamed Tier II supplier and intends to package it in a highly automated “highway pilot” system intended for series production in 2020, said spokesman Tim Wieland."

Regulation and litigation wild cardsRegulation and litigation are two big wild cards for the autonomous driving sector.Tesla’s Autopilot system uses cameras and radar, but not lidar. The agency also is expected to roll out this summer broad guidelines for deploying autonomous vehicle technology.Like Mobileye, Velodyne, a leading supplier of laser-based lidar systems, works with many of the world’s top automakers, including KD35-33-04XC Ford, GM, BMW, Toyota Honda Motor Co and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz.The May 7 death of Ohio technology company owner Joshua Brown in a Tesla Motors Inc Model S while the car's semi-automated Autopilot system was engaged highlighted the limitations of current automated driving systems.Semi-automated systems such as General Motor Co's SuperCruise and Traffic Jam Pilot from Volkswagen AG's Audi are due on the market in 2017-2018.Concerns raised by the first reported fatality in a semi-automated car were expected to speed adoption of more sensitive technology to help vehicles see and drive themselves safely, increasing demand on the emerging autonomous vehicle technology industry, investors and analysts said. "The tradeoff is quite clear: Some safety improvement is better than none

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