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It’s saved hundreds of millions at minimum. LiDAR is incredibly expensive hardware which is why they’re making it work well without it - it would make the cost of the cars really uncompetitive while also looking incredibly silly like Waymos. No one would buy them


Which is why it makes more sense for driverless cars to not be individually owned. At least for now.

It would be like owning your own bus.




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