{"id":19878,"date":"2015-12-08T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:17:38","slug":"the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away","title":{"rendered":"The $75,000 problem for self-driving cars is going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIrMaPTENB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LIDAR units once cost $75,000. Now a $250 LIDAR, with no moving parts, is about to enter the market.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Giving a car \u201ceyes\u201d once cost a fortune. Now it\u2019s affordable, a good sign for autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/innovations\/wp\/2015\/12\/04\/the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIDAR units once cost $75,000. Now a $250 LIDAR, with no moving parts, is about to enter the market. Giving a car \u201ceyes\u201d once cost a fortune. Now it\u2019s affordable, a good sign for autonomous vehicles. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63526,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19878\/revisions\/63526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}