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Ouster Introduces Digital Flash Series Lidar for Automotive
The digital flash (DF) series offers a suite of solid-state lidar sensors with the performance, reliability, and affordability needed for automotive series
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe digital flash (DF) series offers a suite of solid-state lidar sensors with the performance, reliability, and affordability needed for automotive series production\n\n SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nOuster, Inc. (NYSE: OUST) (“Ouster” or the “Company”), a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors, introduced today the DF series, a flexible and scalable high-performance solid-state digital lidar platform for the automotive industry.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211104005436/en/Ouster Automotive DF Series Solid-State Digital Lidar (Photo: Business Wire)\nThe DF series is a suite of short, mid, and long-range solid-state digital lidar sensors that provide uniform precision imaging without motion blur across an entire field of view. With absolutely no moving parts, the DF series is built for best-in-class reliability, durability, and affordability. The DF series is designed to meet automaker requirements for ADAS and automated driving, while seamlessly integrating into the vehicle architecture and design. Ouster expects to make the DF series available for consumer vehicles starting production in 2025. The Company is already shipping functional prototypes and samples to OEMs and Tier 1 partners.\n\nPlatform Capabilities\n\n\nStunning 3D Data: The breakthrough solid-state flash architecture produces incredible high-resolution 3D point clouds up to 200 meters away for 10% reflective targets in full sunlight with no motion blur.\n\n\n\nFlexibility: The multi-sensor suite is a flexible platform that can be easily adapted to different form-factors and sensor configurations to provide varying ranges, fields of view, and vehicle design freedoms — all with a simple change in optics.\n\n\nDF-0: Short-range sensor designed for vehicle cocoon coverage, traffic jam assist, and emerging self-parking applications.\n\n\nDF-1: Mid-range sensor enabling wide angle coverage for L4 and L5 autonomous vehicle applications and for detecting cut ins and overhangs for L3+ automation.\n\n\nDF-2: Long-range sensor for forward-facing L2 to L3 automated highway driving and safe collision avoidance.\n\n\n\n\n\nScalability: Without a single moving part, the solid-state suite is designed to be highly manufacturable and offer the durability, reliability and affo...