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> With our fifth-generation hardware, we’ve simplified the design and manufacturing process so it can be production-ready, and our latest sensors deliver more p
by pgodzin 7y ago
> With our fifth-generation hardware, we’ve simplified the design and manufacturing process so it can be production-ready, and our latest sensors deliver more performance than ever before, at half the cost of our previous generation.
Has LIDAR just gotten that much cheaper?
- ec109685 7y agoThey aren’t trying to sell their cars to the general public.
- azernik 7y agoYup - on the order of halving in price every two years for equivalent models (https://www.thedrive.com/tech/17297/velodyne-just-cut-the-price-of-its-most-popular-lidar-sensor-in-half https://www.thedrive.com/tech/17297/velodyne-just-cut-the-pr...)
- dannyw 7y agoIt's not uncommon for new prototype-level technologies to become significantly cheaper when you (i) improve processes and (ii) increase scale.