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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by amluto on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:49AM (#12477466)
> Google's self driving car project depends on a Lidar system that costs $75,000 today.

I believe you're multiple orders of magnitude off here. Google's LIDAR is surprisingly cheap. I believe they used expensive Velodyne units in earlier versions.

Heck, even brand-new Velodyne devices are only $8k.

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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by irfanka on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:08AM (#12478182)
That's not multiple orders of magnitude; it's, at most, one.
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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by amluto on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:43PM (#12481857)
IIRC Google has an in-house unit that is considerably less expensive, at least in the sense that they project it would cost considerably less to manufacture in volume.
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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by kctess5 on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:26AM (#12477826)
I'm not sure of the specifics, but I think it's fancier than the $8000 unit you're referring to. The vpl-16 only has 16 vertical channels. The next up has 32 vertical channels and costs closer to 30k. The biggest one with 64 channels seems to be around 70k.
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