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Pioneer's addition to driverless car: Microscopic mirrors

Japanese firm's new laser radar intended to drive its expansion into the burgeoning field of autonomous cars

driverless cars, self-driving cars, electric vehicles, e-vehicles, e-cars
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Automakers and their suppliers will have to find creative new ways to offset emissions produced by feeding the car’s increasingly intelligent brain.

Pavel Alpeyev & Kevin Buckland | Bloomberg
When it comes to helping driverless cars see, automakers have a choice between bulky top-mounted contraptions or cheaper but unproven laser-on-a-chip technology. Pioneer Corp thinks it can deliver the best of both worlds.

The Japanese company has developed a new type of lidar — or laser radar — intended to drive its expansion into the burgeoning field of autonomous cars. At the Tokyo Motor Show this week, it’s showing off prototypes for the first time that use a swiveling, microscopic mirror to bounce pulses of light from surrounding objects. Because the device doesn’t employ the motor drive of its larger spinning

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