Originally joining Nauto to design a brand new system for in-vehicle AI powered computer vision, we ultimately celebrated the agility of startups with a major pivot, resulting in a complete overhaul of their existing N2 camera.

Studying the challenges within various vehicle installations, and necessary compromises between outward/inward facing camera positioning, we explored departing various aspects of what existed as an all-in-one product for our customers. Although both beautiful and powerful in the end, we hesitated at the prospect of slowing our momentum, by introducing a more complex system. Our single N2 unit was simple, effective, and welcomed as such.

New, more powerful compute, meant we needed to improve our thermal management performance. Capturing some low hanging fruit, I leveraged learnings from my past life in Opto-Mechanics, to improve the performance of both cameras. While we were in there re-tooling every single aspect of the existing product, we swapped our MicroUSB for USB-C, and gained a bump in GPS performance as well. All of this, to enable our brilliant teams to offer their customers more valuable feature sets, and our team to continue innovating around safe driving.

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