LiDAR costs, compute power and AI training are the “big three” usually associated with the high cost of autonomous vehicles (AVs). We rarely look up. But maybe we should.

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Amadi Brians Chinonso, Ph.D., is a space weather scientist and former graduate visiting fellow at NASA Goddard, NCAR and Los Alamos National Laboratory, specializing in ionospheric disturbances that affect GNSS integrity. As the founder of BrianSpace,...