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It looks like the lidar costs $75K retail, but none of the rest of the sensors look particularly expensive.
by Symmetry 12y ago
It looks like the lidar costs $75K retail, but none of the rest of the sensors look particularly expensive.
- DannyBee 12y agoThis is because they produce so few of them a year. If someone wanted to sit around and just produce lidar units, i'm sure it could be done for 100x less.
- Rthakur 12y agoVelodyne recently released a 16 channel LIDAR for ~ $8000. I agree with you that the cost can come down tremendously with volume. You also need to consider the differences within LIDAR systems. The velodyne system is for 360 degree field of view. Other automotive LIDAR systems (See continental, Valeo, Ibeo, etc) with lower FOV and functionality (forward collision warning, blindspot detection,etc) are much lower cost > 10x ....