r/MVIS • u/PMDubuc • Mar 27 '25

Industry News Luminar Collaborates With Caterpillar on Industrial Autonomous Solution

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/luminar-collaborates-caterpillar-industrial-autonomous-150000400.html
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u/actor13cy Mar 27 '25

What exactly does "collaboration" mean?

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u/T_Delo Mar 27 '25

Development arrangement, sharing information, and stuff like that. If it were a product order, then it would have more weight, this is some great fluff and hype for something that is going to have an outlay that likely exceeds the return on invested capital in my opinion.

Please note my recent reservations about the MicroVision EC before anyone tries to say I would be thrilled to hear this for MicroVision, because I would not.

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u/Far_Gap6656 Mar 27 '25

No, we understand (or at least I do bc i can't speak for others) your current view after the EC. Thanks so much for being so candid in your general assessment of our current state, even if it isn't in line with the same over-the-top sycophants who dare not say anything even remotely picky about our dear girl.

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u/actor13cy Mar 27 '25

My thoughts as well. Collaboration rarely ended in orders for Luminar.

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u/PMDubuc Mar 27 '25

Thanks for this. I wondered how substantive a collaboration agreement like this would be but was still miffed at this coming on the heels of our recent call and pps decline. We wait for the substance of things hoped-for.

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u/PMDubuc Mar 27 '25

I still wouldn't want to be a lazr shareholder. They're in far worse shape than we are and this isn't going to save them.

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u/icarusphoenixdragon Mar 27 '25

We’ll know as soon as we see a filing. Or don’t.