On some days I cannot even go for coffee without bumping into yet another autonomous vehicle. Yesterday I encountered three of them on my way to the supermarket, and today for my morning coffee at Starbucks.

The vehicle was operated by electric vehicle startup Nio and used a Lincoln MKZ, which was equipped with some weird looking LiDARs. Similar box-shaped LiDARs I have seen from Innoviz, but those here I didn’t recognize. Does anyone know the LiDAR-maker?

UPDATE: The LiDARs are from Innovusion.

Here is the video:

This article was also published in German.