[darby_eight]

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.

[ripjaygn]

> Besides, I imagine many of the issues with vision (e.g. adverse weather)

LIDAR is bad in rain, fog and snow.

[meepmorp]

So are cameras.

[etrautmann]

And people

[stetrain]

Because $1000 of Lidar hardware per car would be $1.85 billion per year.

[Zigurd]

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.

[fmobus]

Take out of his 56B comp package

[stetrain]

Those are stock grants which don’t directly affect the company’s net income.

[adrr]

They do affect net income when they vest. It is treated as an expense in GAAP.