even in low light. there's a general assumption right now that automatic emergency braking or collision avoidance systems are a solved problem on cars. but the reality is the opposite, people still get into car accidents all the time, and this is despite now the substantial majority of new vehicles being produced with assisted driving capabilities. the reality is, you would think it would be easy to build system that willjust prevent you from hitting the thing right in front of you, but that's simply not the case with these existing camera and radar systems. luminar�*s laser sensing technology measures how far away objects are, perception software interpreting the data, feeding what it finds into the control software that tells the car how and where to stop.