Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
by Qworg on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:01AM
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A factor of 10 and at least 3-4 years of engineering work? Yeah, that's no small potatoes.
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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
by tyingq on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:38AM
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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.