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by seanmcdirmid 364 days ago
They didn’t count on LIDAR falling in price so rapidly with their bet.
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smallmancontrov 364 days ago
The cameras that collected those billions of miles of data were installed up to 10 years ago. You can't teleport today's LIDAR prices into the past.
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seanmcdirmid 364 days ago
Yes, but it’s pretty easy to drive a car around with a LiDAR unit, you can couple it with Google maps data collection.
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smallmancontrov 364 days ago
They didn't drive around a collection car, they had their customers drive millions of collection cars for billions of miles.
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