Tesla moves to reliance solely on cameras for Autopilot operation, dropping ultrasonic sensors and radar. The automaker will leave some features disabled in new cars until cameras can replace the ...

Tesla announced removing ultrasonic sensors from its vehicles in October last year, promising that Tesla Vision would offer the same functionality. Nevertheless, despite some tentative moves, newer ...

Tesla loves streamlining things but sometimes makes decisions that are certain to affect owners without offering a backup solution. While dropping ultrasonic sensors, Tesla said Vision would provide ...

Tesla has spent years arguing that a camera‑centric approach to driver assistance can match or surpass the performance of ...

Nanoelectronics and photonics technologies research hub imec has developed an optomechanical ultrasound sensor on a silicon photonic chip that has an unprecedented sensitivity due to an innovative ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.200076 discusses miniaturized highly sensitive ultrasound sensor for photoacoustic imaging. Photoacoustic imaging generates ...

There is a lot of buzz about electromagnetic (EM) detection and ranging sensor technology, which encompass radar, lidar, infrared (IR), ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB), and many others. However, there are ...

New Tesla models leaving the automaker’s factories won’t be equipped with ultrasonic parking sensors beginning this month and will rely solely on cameras for driver-assistance features including ...

Sound technology: the optomechanical ultrasound sensor array chip with optical fibre block array access. (Courtesy: IMEC) A highly sensitive optomechanical ultrasound detector integrated onto a ...

A new category of sensing technology transforms mobile robot vision from 2D to 3D, improves safety performance and provides 50-80% cost savings compared to traditional, LiDAR-based systems and sensor ...

Ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) sensors are embedding more powerful on-chip processors with higher computational capability to run a wide range of application algorithms while offloading the system ...