Tesla Motors, electric vehicle & clean energy major based in Palo Alto, California, is reportedly planning to add new “4D” radar with twice the range of its current radar to its vehicles to boost its self-driving effort. Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk apparently is not in favor of use of lidar sensors for the company’s autonomous or self-driving driving vehicles. Many believed that Musk hates lidar sensors because they are quite expensive. He has repeatedly said that his company would not make use of use lidar sensors even if they were free.

As an alternative, the Palo Alto, California-based company is making uses of eight surround cameras around its electric vehicles complemented by a combination of a dozen ultrasonic sensors and front-facing radar. All vehicles of the company, since the year of 2016, have been coming equipped with the aforementioned suit of sensors or similar versions of it even as the company introduced hardware updates over the years. But, the company is now preparing to give Tesla sensors their biggest update since the Autopilot 2.0’s launch years ago.

For the radar, the EV maker is using Continental’s ARS410 automotive radar that has a range of 160 meters (525 feet). Now, the company is reportedly looking to update the radar system with a new 4D sensor technology produced by an Israeli business called Arbe Robotics.

There more than a few indications that Tesla has plans to shift to the new radar technology. The Tesla hacker known as “green,” who has consistently been reporting about new features pertaining to software to be used by the EV maker, has now reported that a new radar option called ‘Phoenix” has been added by Tesla to its autonomous car project through a recent software update. However, Arbe didn’t respond to a request for a comment on the development.

The Israeli startup’s chipset manages up to 48 Rx channels in conjunction with 48 Tx channels in real-time, producing 30 frames per second of complete 4D image, with corresponding processing throughput of 3 Tb per second.

Phoenix is said to be Arbe’s radar chipset solution capable of offering services to meet real-world driving needs through identification, assessment, and responding to challenges with its innovative 4D ultra-HD real-time imaging. Irrespective of the speed, elevation, proximity or size, Arbe’s Phoenix chipset solution is capable of differentiating true threats from false alarms to guarantee a safe road ahead for drivers and pedestrians.