The car of the future will be ultra-comfortable, safe AND driverless. The story of how this could come to pass started with three laser technology researchers in a garage in Leuven, Belgium, 10 years ago backed up with advice from the Enterprise Europe Network.

"Our goals were, and still are, to develop a totally disruptive technology to make distance measurements based on light," recounts Filip Geuens, founder and CEO of XenomatiX. The company now occupies a two-storey building in the Leuven Research Park with a fully operational calibration lab. "We named our start-up XenomatiX after the amazing element ‘xenon’, commonly used for high-end vehicle lighting, and ‘matix’, referring to automation," he tells us.

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