Developers of self-driving car technology are using smaller and cheaper sensors to drive down prices, and car companies like Nissan Motor Co. are lining up to buy, with plans to deploy “driverless” cars in the next decade. But lobbying for legislation to allow such technology on the road could take longer.
The new sensors, made by Velodyn Inc., will cost around $10,000, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company only offers sensors four to eight times that price. The sensors use Lidar, laser radar invented by Velodyn founder David Hall, with Google Maps to create a 3D view of the car’s surroundings. The software then uses high-resolution maps of the world to navigate. The sensors that Google uses in their research-and-development vehicles cost about $85,000. Notably, the company’s robotic fleet hasn’t seen an accident yet. The accident reported by Politifact, involved a human who was manually driving at the time.
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