Aeva's New Compact Driverless Car Sensors

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Soroush Salehian and Mina Rezk are the founders of a new Silicon Valley start-up called Aeva. They just unveiled a small sensing system designed for self-driving cars. The veterans of Apple’s secretive Special Projects Group aim to give these autonomous vehicles a more complete, detailed and reliable view of the world around them. CNBC gets an early look at the tech. Silicon Valley start-up Aeva has been secretive about the technology it's been building to help self-driving cars understand what's happening around them. On Monday, the company finally revealed its creation: a system that detects velocity, depth and reflectivity more than 200 yards away, without using a ton of power — in a unit that's the size of a tissue box. If you think Aeva's simple white product looks like something Apple might make, there's good reason. The start-up's founders previously worked at Apple, specifically on its secretive car project that goes by the code name Titan. And like Apple, Aeva has even pursued development of a custom processor to complement other chips it uses. With around 50 employees and $45 million in funding from investors including Canaan Partners and Lux Capital, Aeva is still a small outfit. But it's working with a handful of big-name automakers on integrating the product into various types of vehicles, said Soroush Salehian, who co-founded Aeva with Mina Rezk. A customer can employ as many as five of the boxes on a single vehicle, depending on the level of automation that

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