Iphone uses orignial kinect style lidar which throws IR beam and captures back results (apple bought primesense which was the manufacturer of original kinect) , These lidar don't work that good under direct sunlight, So cannot be used in cars.
You realize the lidar distance for a car would be entirely different. It's a way different beast.
The price of a car is 35x the price of a phone. Does the cost of the LIDAR scale up 35x when going from phone distances to car distances? That is an honest question that I don't know the answer to.
No, it's more than a factor of 300 price difference for the big lidars currently used on cars versus what that thing'd cost. The big spinning mirrors in the car lidar really bring the price up.
I think the use cases for LIDAR in cars are different enough that it would definitely scale up the cost of implementation
You need to look into margins.
Yeah, while I'm pretty excited at the possibilities of LiDAR in the phones, they do have pretty limited range and would in no way be suitable for a car.
I've been working with iPad Pro and I think there's a lot of possibilities for it outside of just autofocus...