11/23/2023 0 Comments Austin russell lidar![]() ![]() From Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz for consumer vehicles and Daimler Trucks for commercial trucks, to tech partners NVIDIA and Intel’s Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the first automotive technology company to enable next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for production vehicles. ![]() For the past decade, Luminar has built an advanced hardware and software platform to enable its more than 50 industry partners, including the majority of global automotive OEMs. “By capturing tech advancements and their impacts on road safety we can deliver more accurate risk models, pricing competitiveness and risk knowledge for Luminar-equipped vehicles to our clients – insurance providers.”Ībout Luminar Luminar is a global automotive technology company ushering in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. “Swiss Re’s mission is to make the world more resilient so we’re delighted to partner with Luminar on a project that can make our roads safer,” said Russell Higginbotham, CEO Swiss Re Solutions. Luminar Insurance is expected to be available to consumers of production vehicle models equipped with Luminar beginning in the US next year, with the opportunity to provide substantial discounts to consumers while also capturing the safety savings. Luminar will be launching its own insurance initiative led by the team that created Tesla’s insurance program. We’re collaborating with Swiss Re in order to accelerate this process and give consumers the economic credit they deserve.” “Just as the introduction of electric vehicles have reduced the cost of energy to the consumer, Luminar-equipped cars can reduce the cost of insurance. “Reduction in accidents and lives saved with Luminar-equipped vehicles will naturally drive lower cost of car insurance and savings to consumers,” said Austin Russell, Founder and CEO, Luminar. This data collected and analyzed by Swiss Re will be distributed to Luminar as well as made available to Swiss Re’s clients that include major insurance providers across the globe. Swiss Re will collaborate exclusively with Luminar as part of this initiative. The objective of this testing is to validate accident prevention capabilities that we expect will substantially reduce insurance claims, which has the opportunity to lead to substantial reduction in cost of insurance for consumers that drive luminar-equipped vehicles. Saving lives is our primary goal and we can democratize our technology to help more people by establishing a lower total cost of ownership of their vehicles. The first step of the joint initiative is to analyze and quantify the on-road performance and safety improvements of consumer and commercial vehicles equipped with Luminar’s lidar and proactive safety technologies, for both the industry and Luminar’s new insurance program it plans to offer. ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Luminar (Nasdaq: LAZR), a leading global automotive technology company, and Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, today announced a new exclusive partnership. Top-Tier global reinsurer is exclusively partnering with Luminar to advance assisted driving and improve safety while reducing costs of consumer adoption
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