PROVIZIO eyes safety with radar, not lidar

Provizio promises its 5D Perception stack can safely compete with expensive lidar sensors at a fraction of the cost.

“Safety first” is more than a catchphrase. For sensing company Provizio, it's the only way the transportation industry should introduce autonomous vehicles. In Provizio's view, using AV building blocks - technology such as automatic emergency braking and lane-keep assist - can be valuable in ADAS systems, but they should not be used to drive vehicles until the perception problem has been solved.

“It's not that we're skeptical about autonomous driving, it's just that we strongly believe that the industry has taken this wrong path,” Dane Mitrev, machine learning engineer at Provizio, told SAE Media at September 2023's AutoSens Brussels conference. “The industry has looked at things the other way around. They tried to solve autonomy first, without looking at accident prevention and simpler ADAS systems. We are building a perception technology which will first eliminate road fatalities, then deliver next-generation ADAS - and then solve autonomy. We believe that's the right order.”