Could shrinking a key component help make autonomous cars affordable?
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

Engineers and business leaders have been working on autonomous cars for years, but there`s one big obstacle to making them cheap enough to become commonplace: They`ve needed a way to cut the cost of lidar, the technology that enables robotic navigation systems to spot and avoid pedestrians and other hazards along the roadway by bouncing light waves off these potential obstacles.