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Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar from Luminar

Tesla’s purchase was Luminar’s largest of the quarter.

In fact, Tesla bought so much lidar from Luminar, it helped offset a quarter-over-quarter drop in revenue, driven by a lower volume of sensors to non-automotive companies. Musk’s lidar allergy was even on display during Tesla’s own quarterly earnings call, in which he boasted about how his vehicles only rely on camera-based vision systems to power their driver-assist features. The company is quietly operating an autonomous testing fleet in a number of cities, including San Francisco and Las Vegas.

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