Jenoptik Group revenues rose by 11.6% to €834m. The 4th quarter was the strongest in 2018, with €241m; the company say this performance was mainly driven by strong demand from the semiconductor equipment industry and the delivery of toll

Ouster, a San Francisco-based startup who have developed high-resolution, multi-beam flash lidar sensors for a variety of applications, say they have raised another $60m in series-A funding. The combination of equity and debt finance, led by Runway

The second annual Global LiFi Congress will take place on 12–13 June 2019 at the Salons Hoche in Paris, France. Scientific and economic leaders involved with LiFi technology will be brought together to create a timeline and determine

ZF Friedrichshafen entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wabco. The planned acquisition has been approved by ZF's Management Board and Supervisory Board and Wabco's Board of Directors. Together, ZF says it and Wabco will form a leading global

Innoviz and Ouster have raised a total of nearly USD $200m to support development and production of lidar sensors for automated vehicles.

A German research network with research institutions, universities, IT companies and companies from the automotive industry has developed a near-series fusion platform with open interfaces, called Open Fusion Platform (OFP) to enable automobile

Ford have announced plans to put cellular vehicle-to-everything, or C-V2X, technology in Ford vehicles in China in 2021. C-V2X technology can help make streets safer with vehicles that will be able to "talk" and "listen" to each other, pedestrians,

Nissan are testing the use of augmented reality in autonomous driving. They call it I2V (Invisible-to-Visible), and it helps to merge real and virtual worlds, allowing the driver to see beyond objects such as buildings.

Ficosa and Panasonic are co-developing a rearview mirror with integral ETC (electronic toll collection) transponder for BMW's new X5 model in Japan.

PSA have decided to limit their work on the autonomous car for individuals to level 3, in which the driver must be able to take control at any time, saying they won't develop autonomy features beyond level 3 for passenger cars at this time.