Well there's Livox with a $600 unit: https://www.livoxtech.com/ https://www.livoxtech.com/ Initial reviews[1] on the internet show it looks pretty decent for t

Well there's Livox with a $600 unit: https://www.livoxtech.com/ https://www.livoxtech.com/ Initial reviews[1] on the internet show it looks pretty decent for the price. There are certainly better sensors, but I would argue we have indeed entered the sub-$1,000-lidar-phase of the SDC era. As if Andrej Karpathy needed anything more to worry about. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UAVmapping/comments/aimnik/livox_mid40_lidar_first_review_with_pictures/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UAVmapping/comments/aimnik/livox_mi...