News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets. Parent comment

Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by philsnow on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:50PM (#13720126)
I thought waymo's lidar sensors were much, much cheaper than other sensors: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...

We're talking about reducing a ~$25000 part to ~$2500.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by Qworg on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:01AM (#13722403)
A factor of 10 and at least 3-4 years of engineering work? Yeah, that's no small potatoes.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by tyingq on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:38AM (#13723045)
That was a result, though, of Google collaborating with Velodyne. I suspect Velodyne would have reduced pricing to everyone as a result. And Google's not the only entity working towards less expensive LiDAR. There's Delphi/Quanergy, etc.

Just seems like a huge risk to save maybe $10k per vehicle (assuming price drops for everyone) for some relatively short time period.

[ Parent | on HN ]