Comment by digitalPhonix

Source? None of those numbers make sense.

> The price is somewhat of a guess, several years ago, the hardware in Waymo was priced at $130k by Munro&Associates

10 years ago they had even more sensors dotting the car, instead of one honeycomb on each corner they had 2, so I find $130k hard to believe given what we know about the sensor kit today.

> But since then the cost of the LIDAR sensors fell by 90% or so, reducing the main expense.

I do not know of any lidar that has done that, and Waymo makes their own and we know their price(-ish) (and quantity). I think they’ve actually gone up in price (but also capability - honeycomb 1 vs gen 2).