One little known fact is that lidar has been in cars for a long time. Volvo for example has had lidar in some cars going back almost 10 years IRRC (I saw a pres

One little known fact is that lidar has been in cars for a long time. Volvo for example has had lidar in some cars going back almost 10 years IRRC (I saw a presentation by a Volvo engineer talking about this, can't find any link right now because it's all swamped by the Volvo luminar collaboration). It was very different type of lidar though mainly used for keeping distance to the car ahead (and maybe AEB?). The thing about "modern" Lidar is that there are still so many open questions (weather, how to keep the apertures clean...) , apart from the fact that they still are way too expensive.