The world needs more people like you! I know nothing about autonomous vehicles, but it seems to me that you can benefit from other efforts. You are probably aw

The world needs more people like you! I know nothing about autonomous vehicles, but it seems to me that you can benefit from other efforts. You are probably aware that there are tens of such projects on GitHub. What I would do is concentrate on a common but uneasy use case, such as parking, and evolve the functionalities from that. Regarding the low-cost aspect, I believe that avoiding interpreted languages will reduce some computing power requirements.