Aeva Autonomous Navigation Sensor
Billed by the company as a 4D LIDAR system, startup Aeva's first product is meant to be a better set of eyes for autonomous vehicles. Founded by veterans of Apple's "Special Projects" team — the one working on a self-driving car — Aeva's box can sense not just the objects in a space, but their direction and velocity, allowing it to accurately predict where the objects might be going next. This mesh of hardware and software together in a self-contained unit is unsurprising given the founder's backgrounds, but while the system has all the sensors necessary for autonomous driving, it's up to any company using it to come up with their own self-driving software.