One of Waymo's LIDAR competitors was a client when I still worked in consulting. (Not free to say which due to non-disclosures still in effect.) You're trivial

One of Waymo's LIDAR competitors was a client when I still worked in consulting. (Not free to say which due to non-disclosures still in effect.) You're trivializing the amount of work that has gone into both LIDARs and products integrating LIDARS. I am aware that rocket science is hard. But we reached the moon before we developed pocket calculators. Fundamentally, the math behind rocket science can be done by hand. And was. Despite RADAR being developed more than 70 years ago, LIDARs required technological breakthroughs in multiple fields of physical sciences to become viable, which is why they only began showing up in force within the past decade, and this is despite the obvious military applications driving military research for the past several decades.