IDTechEx on LiDAR Technology

PRNewswire: IDTechEx Research publishes its view on LiDAR approaches and comparisons. Few interesting points:

IDTechEx believes that non-rotating mechanical LiDARs is the cheapest technology today, but MEMS-based scanning LiDARs overtake them as the cheapest option after 2020:

The technological options are quite diverse:

106 LiDAR companies are spread across the globe: 34 players headquartered in Asia (20 start-ups in China), 19 players headquartered in Europe, 48 players headquartered in North America and 5 players headquartered in the rest of the world (ROW).