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So GM engineering got the hardware integrated with the vehicle and engineered it for assembly line production. That's what GM engineering does. Whether the Cruise software is good enough for self-driving without driver attention remains to be seen.

Volvo is doing well with their self-driving car, but admits the hardware cost is over $100K per car at present.



I don't really believe it is possible. Lidars were the most expensive part and are much, much cheaper now, I can't really imagine how can they spend more than 100k$ of self driving hardware per car.


There still are not cheap, good, 3D, automotive-grade LIDAR units. 2-3 years out, though, there should be lots of them.


Waymo lidar is around 7.5k$, I would say that it qualifies as a good automotive-grade lidar.


If you need four to six of them, as the little Google/Waymo car did, that's still too expensive.




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