Cameras are cheap, but, as I understand:

1) it's not cheap to produce lidars at a stable predictable quality in millions;

2) car driving training data sets for lidars are much scarcer (and will always be much scarcer due to cameras' higher prevalence) and at a much lower quality;

3) combined camera+lidar data sets are even scarcer.

Doesn’t that make it a sensible long term play to equip your car with $200 LIDAR and start gathering that data as a competitive advantage?