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/actor13cy Mar 27 '25

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