Audi self-driving unit taps newcomer Aeva for its unique lidar

Audi’sself-driving unit has tapped a startup with a unique approach to lidar as it ramps up testing in Munich using a fleet of autonomous electric e-tron crossover vehicles.
Audi subsidiary Autonomous Intelligent Driving, or AID, said Wednesday it’s using lidar sensors developed by Aeva, a startup founded just two years ago by veterans of Apple and Nikon.
Aeva,a Mountain View, Calif.-based company started by Soroush Salehian and Mina Rezk, has developed what it describes as “4D