GM Buys Lidar Company

[NerdUno]

GM's Cruise buys LIDAR company projecting 99% reduction in LIDAR deployment costs

GM's Cruise buys LIDAR company to drastically cut self-driving costs

 

[lunitiks]

99% ? That's pretty incredible.

 

[Sean Wagner]

This is a very interesting news item, and some insight can be gained by way of the Cruise CEO's brief article on medium '[...] by collapsing the entire sensor down to a single chip, we’ll reduce the cost of each LIDAR on our self-driving cars by 99%.":

How we’re solving the LIDAR problem – Kyle Vogt – Medium

 

[NerdUno]

Might be a 99% reduction on GM vehicles. Not sure that will be passed along to competitors.

 

[stopcrazypp]

99% ? That's pretty incredible.

99% of what though? I have the same problem with battery advancements projections too. They say they will improve things by x% but don't give the baseline, so it's worthless.

 

[RDoc]

Personally, I suspect that Time of Flight cameras will obsolete LIDAR.