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I don't know anything about their finances but please consider the car is about $200k with current sensors. Just like Uber and Lyft, the load is not evenly dist
by msoad 6y ago
I don't know anything about their finances but please consider the car is about $200k with current sensors. Just like Uber and Lyft, the load is not evenly distributed. You need a lot more remote assistant drivers than most people imagine is needed.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoAlso, the depreciation hit on miles travelled is taken by Uber drivers. Waymo will have to pay for depreciation.
- curryst 6y agoThose prices should come down, though. Lidar is fairly exotic at the moment, which contributes to those prices. Once more applications are found, I would expect those to drop. One interesting application is for motion detection. Lidar gives a detailed enough image to determine whether an object is a person or not, paving the way for motion detection systems that only trigger when humans move, as opposed to when anything moves. The lifetime of the sensors is also important. If the sensors outlive the car, you can amortize a big part of that $200k by just putting old sensors on a new car. If the sensors are shorter lived than the car, the total cost of the car over its lifetime will be much higher.