Ubiquitous adoption of lidar in self driving cars needs one major thing: lower cost. Lidar has proven to be a capable technology for level 4 autonomous driving, and is already used in self driving taxis by Waymo and Cruise. But the spinning lidar domes on top of these cars cost thousands of dollars, and that number needs to drop by at least an order of magnitude.There are over 140 startups in the lidar space looking to make that happen and more.In this post, we will cover the basics of automotiv...