At that time Lidar was too expensive and ugly to be putting in every car. Robust Lidar for SAE level 4 autonomous vehicles is still not cheap and still pretty ugly.

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polishdude20 5 days ago | parent [-]

But that's what's needed. Tesla could have developed an effective and cheap lidar if they decided millions of their cars needed it.

	▲	Fricken 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not too long ago there were over 5 dozen startups in the automotive grade lidar space. Lidar is now much cheaper and smaller, but still very conspicuous and still too expensive to be putting in every vehicle.