Delphi, Quanergy team up on low-cost lidar: Sensor tech key for autonomous cars

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DETROIT - Delphi Automotive Systems, working with a Silicon Valley startup, says it plans to bring a new, solid-state lidar system for self-driving cars to market for less than $1,000 per car. Lidar bounces light beams off objects rather than using radio waves, as with radar. In an autonomous car, it works with radar and cameras to give the vehicle a 360-degree vision of its surroundings, But today's lidar systems are prohibitively expensive. The unit on top of Google's self-driving car, for example, made by Velodyne LiDAR, retails for about $70,000.