Self-driving cars will boost demand for collision-avoidance sensors

Self-driving cars will boost demand for collision-avoidance sensors

David Sedgwick 
Automotive News Europe
October 17, 2014 06:01 CET

Sensing growth

Global sales of collision-avoidance sensors are rising rapidly. Here are sales forecasts.
	2014	2020
Radar	$1.62 billion	$4.38 billion
Camera	$1.28 billion	$3.93 billion
Ultrasound	$990 million	$1.41 billion
Lidar	$52 million	$185 million
Total	$3.94 billion	$9.90 billion
Source: IHS Automotive

Fully autonomous cars may be a decade away, but the sensors they will need for collision avoidance -- radar, cameras, ultrasound and lidar -- have become a big business already.

Global sales of anti-crash sensors will total $9.90 billion in 2020 -- up from $3.94 billion this year, predicts IHS Automotive.

Radar and cameras will account for the lion's share of that revenue, followed by ultrasound and lidar, according to the IHS forecast.

Lidar, the sensor of choice used on Google's driverless car, will generate relatively small sales by 2020. It uses pulsed laser light to measure distances.

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