https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/luminars-austin-russell-talks-life-post-ipo-av-deals-and-lidars-future-at-tc-sessions-mobility-2022/

Achieving the vision of a world where fully autonomous vehicles are both safe and ubiquitous continues to be a long and winding road. Three complementary sensor technologies have emerged in the race to build vehicles that don’t require human intervention: camera, radar and lidar (light detection and ranging radar).

Lidar, in particular, is widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles. Moreover, automakers have also begun to view lidar as key to increasing the capabilities and safety of their advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in new cars, trucks and SUVs for consumers.