[lenerdenator]

How much Lidar does $2 million buy you? Probably, what, a year's worth of Tesla's manufacturing output?

[stetrain]

They produced 1.85 million vehicles in 2023.

So a $2 million order would work out to $1.08 per car.

Or if Lidar hardware for one car cost about $500, then $2 million is not quite enough for one day's worth of manufacturing output.

[grecy]

Not even remotely close.

This is clearly R&D just to validate the images from their vision approach.

[cyrux004]

At $1000 a piece which is the rumored price ; is around 2,000 units if they got a volume discount it would be 4,000 units

[cozzyd]

enough for one engineer's test bench, more like