&gt; Once Mass production kicks in the cars will get cheaper and cheaper as the processes to create them does so.<p>Yes, but there <i>is</i> an expected near-to-medium-term price floor on the sorts of <i>good</i> sensing equipment that such cars will require, not to mention certified (and patent-encumbered) software to fuse that data and turn it into useful and safe action.<p>This is stuff that you <i>don&#x27;t</i> want to cheap out on; it&#x27;s how the car sees and operates safely!