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Google does the hardware well too. They built their own lidar to reduce cost compared to velodyne by 90%.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...

They also built a second narrowly focused longer range lidar that can be automatically pointed at the ROI of objects visuslly detected beyond the range of velodyne's ~200m.

https://medium.com/waymo/introducing-waymos-suite-of-custom-...

Both are used on their vehicles. If you have better hardware it makes the software problems higher up the stack easier.



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