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We are already in series production with Shanghai Auto over in China. And so we believe we have the best long range LiDAR out there in the business. There are prohibitive cost barriers that we've kind of cracked, but what it allows us to do is effectively put 13 times more photons in the environment, which allows us to see further. But we operate at a wavelength that very few other LiDAR companies do. We didn't buy off the shelf components and we'll talk a little bit more about that, I'm sure, during the Q&A. We, Austin designed this LiDAR, as he says, from the chips-up.

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We're also in the software business and really trying to build around and monetize the ecosystem that our LiDAR enables, whether that's on the software, both the perception side as well as other features of it, 3D mapping, insurance, etcetera.

On top of that, LiDAR, which is the foundation of everything we do. For those that aren't familiar with it, as I describe it to my two young boys, we effectively shoot lasers out of cars to significantly improve their safety and ultimately enable autonomy. His expertise is really in optics and lasers, which is the core of our technology. He's one of these Silicon Valley stories where drop out of college, start the company. We were founded in 2012 by Austin Russell, who's our Co-Founder and CEO. So I think you did a good job talking a little bit about Luminar's history. Yeah, Chris, thank you for the introduction and it's great to be back at this conference.

Just a quick history for the generalist about the company and really what you're focused on for the next couple of years of the future as Luminar goes from sort of production wins to obviously ramping into a high number of vehicles. But maybe you could just give an overview a little bit. Luminar has been a staple of this sort of conference going back for many, many years even when we were doing it live in Menlo. Tom, thank you so much for joining us today. Now, Tom's been the CFO since 2020, and before that he was Co-Head of the Industrials and Automotive Group at Jefferies as well as Head of Automotive at Goldman Sachs. They also came to market via SPAC in 2020.

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To this point, their LiDAR is planned on 20 plus production vehicle models, including Volvo, Mercedes, Polestar and SAIC as they begin to implement the solution on higher-end vehicles before launching to more mass market, which we'll hear about. Luminar's LiDAR is actually built from the chip-up and strikes to add another degree of resolution and accuracy that other systems aren't yet able to offer.

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Luminar is a pioneer in automotive-grade 1550 LiDAR for use in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. So a quick background and obviously Tom can put more in his own words, but Luminar founded by Austin Russell in actually 2012. Today with us we have the pleasure of having the CFO of Luminar, Tom Fennimore joined by the new Head of IR, Aileen Smith. Hello, everyone again, and thank you for joining this next session of our Autotech & AI Conference. ( NASDAQ: LAZR) Evercore ISI Autotech & AI Forum Conference Call 3:00 PM ETĪileen Smith - Head of Investor Relations