This paper deals with the initial phase of any multi-sensor acquisition, the sensor alignment process. We focus on extrinsic calibration of vision-based and line scan LIDAR sensors for automotive application. We investigate two research approaches for the calibration process: analytical and numeric solutions. Additionally, we present a complete implementable tool-chain, to extract the co-features for both types of sensors: line detections for cameras and segmentation process for LIDAR sensors. Moreover, we investigate the impact of the calibration accuracy on sensor fusion performance. Results of experiments using real-world data are presented