https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-31/waymo-adds-62-000-chrysler-minivans-to-self-driving-fleet Any ideas: - With cheap LiDARs technology, what will be the range of a low-end self-driving car? With current hardware price, I saw $200k tag. If EV + SD can be delivered between $50-75k, how large the adoption could be? - With self-driving car (deployed not at busy cities) what blocks Waymo from starting a ride sharing service in US? How threatening it’d be for Lyft particularly? - With many competitors well advanced in the tech, what’s the future of Lyft Level5 initiatives? How far they are lagging even compared to Uber ATG?
Lidar is cheap to make, so are driverless cars. Most of the cost is R&D. Actual incremental cost other than insurance liability will probably be around 2k max.
I think you have no clue how expensive lidars are
Yeah, current lidar systems are almost 100K per car. And since they are mechanical (physically rotating) they won't have a very long lifetime. Until one of the experimental / solid state lidar systems becomes viable/production ready, self driving cars will be very expensive.
My understanding is that Waymo already has a ridesharing service via an app, and that it's already deployed in Arizona (for free)
I was not aware of. Did you mean Waze?
Nobody ever posted how that app looks alike.