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This 1960s Radar Technology Is Making a Comeback in Self Driving Cars
An Israeli company is giving cars x-ray vision.
By Tracey Lindeman, Jan 15 2018, 3:45pm
The newest automotive sensor to hit the market promises to give connected cars a sort of x-ray vision, allowing them to “see” inside of and around the car without cameras—for a fraction of the cost of other sensors.
Vayyar, a company based in the outskirts of Tel Aviv, makes a 3D imaging sensor based on a form of radio-frequency (RF) technology that’s been around since the 1960s. Called ultra-wideband (UWB), it was primarily used by the military in radar systems—which is how Vayyar’s founder Raviv Melamed, who served in the Israeli Defense Forces, said he first encountered it. He spoke on the phone from Las Vegas ahead of CES, where he was presenting his company’s sensor technology.
UWB got some attention in the early 2000s but quickly fell into obscurity, supplanted by other communications technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ZigBee (commonly used in smart-home devices), wrote Lou Frenzel in Electronic Design.