On Friday, Samsung Electro-Mechanics said that it is currently in talks with Tesla about possibly supplying camera modules, according to a report from Reuters.
Additionally, Samsung Electro-Mechanics said that it could not reveal the size of the deal or the number of camera modules at the current time.
In a regulatory filing, the company said it’s working on the advancement of its camera modules, with plans to diversify its designs.
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Currently, Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta systems use camera-based technology, rather than using radar and lidar, like some automakers are choosing to do.
Australia and New Zealand just became the most recent countries to add camera-only Autopilot functionality last month.
While Tesla launched camera-based FSD and Autopilot in the U.S. last summer, the automaker officially kicked radar out for good in February, when it launched camera-based Autopilot for its Model S and X units.
A report in January showed that Samsung and LG were competing for Tesla’s camera module orders, though it’s not clear if the automaker is also talking to other suppliers.
