https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/velodyne-just-made-self-driving-cars-a-bit-less-expensive-hopefully/

Velodyne announced this week that it has cut the price of its most popular lidar system, the VLP-16, in half. When the VLP-16 originally went on sale in 2016, it commanded a price of $8,000, so the 50-percent slash is quite the chunk of change. It's unclear if buyers get additional discounts based on volume.

The drop in price comes as a direct result of Velodyne's manufacturing efforts in its new "megafactory." The company opened this new facility in San Jose, California in 2017, and it started out manufacturing the company's flagship HDL-64 system, which emits four times the number of lasers as the VLP-16.