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I can't speak to profitability of competitors like velodyne and their existing lidar tech but isn't it possible that the risk of waiting for sales volume to re
by forgotmysn 8y ago
I can't speak to profitability of competitors like velodyne and their existing lidar tech
but isn't it possible that the risk of waiting for sales volume to reach a certain threshold, thereby creating opportunities for other companies to bring their tech up to the same standard, outweighs the risk of selling the units below cost to capture marketshare in the short term?
- Animats 8y agoIf more of these companies had real products, I'd expect them to at least be selling development kits. There are lots of industrial applications at the $1000 price point.
- forgotmysn 8y agothats true, but not really the point im making. you're right, any real competitor would at least be sending out dev kits if they were road ready. i guess what im saying is that every day that continental delays is a day closer those companies get to having a product thats dev-kit ready, and thus a day closer to bleeding market share to them