[smallmancontrov]

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.

[seanmcdirmid]

Yes, but it’s pretty easy to drive a car around with a LiDAR unit, you can couple it with Google maps data collection.

[smallmancontrov]

They didn't drive around a collection car, they had their customers drive millions of collection cars for billions of miles.