Comment by Kirby64
20 hours ago
Not sure I'd agree that the Tesla estimate is accurate for the truly driverless versions they've started releasing in Austin. Maybe for the standard ones you can buy. There's reporting on the additional telematics packs that have been added to Model Y cars in their Robotaxi fleet, so who knows what that costs.
Cybercab has double the RAM and a bit more memory bandwidth, but otherwise it's the same 8 external mono RGB cameras.
It's maybe $1.5K of BoM total for the chip, memory, and cameras.
Tesla is also able to save on components that are no longer needed: steering wheel and steering column, rear window mirror, control to change gears etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it's cheaper to make those cars than standard ones.