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Price. I worked briefly with teams building self driving cars in the past. Their budget for sensors far exceeded the cost of the car itself.

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Of course, they were presumably using a mostly-stock car with custom niche sensor products, so that comparison would be a bit more favorable in production.

Latest projected price for the lidar unit is $500 to $1000 e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/lidar-cheap-make-self-driving-re...

No-one is expecting to use experimental $75000 Velodyne units in production.

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