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Because $1000 of Lidar hardware per car would be $1.85 billion per year.
Take out of his 56B comp package
Those are stock grants which don’t directly affect the company’s net income.
Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar from Luminar
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Re: Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar from Luminar
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That must clearly be true, but I'd like cars to driver better than humans and make use of all the tech that we can't. Academically vision only is an interesting feat, and as a backup mode for when sensors fail it makes sense to pursue vision only operation, but it seems to me that having more sensors should be superior.
> but it seems to me that having more sensors should be superior. What do you do when the sensors disagree?
Re: Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar from Luminar
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Why would they not simply use lidar in the cars themselves? Besides, I imagine many of the issues with vision (e.g. adverse weather) could not be addressed with training-time data.
Because $1000 of Lidar hardware per car would be $1.85 billion per year.
If you make millions of them per year, lidar won't cost $1k per car. OTOH existing lidar designs are not designed for mass market manufacturing or serviceability.