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Cake day: March 11th, 2025

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  • can’t really blame a generation that wasn’t raised on computers

    No. I’m tired of giving them this excuse. Computers have been common place in the workplace for like 2 decades at this point. That’s plenty of time to learn what a monitor is or what a power button looks like or the fact that computers need to be plugged in to work.

    This is also not a defense of Gen Z but I’m a little more forgiving because they were too young to really have to deal with the annoying parts of computers.


  • So that one sensor is $700. Waymo has 4 LIDAR sensors (all of which are physically larger and I would imagine fancier than the Alibaba ones, but that’s speculation), so just in the scanner hardware itself you’re looking at $2,800. Plus the computer to run it, plus the 6 radar receivers, and 13 cameras, I could absolutely see the price for the end user to be around $10k worth of sensors.

    But to be clear, I don’t think camera only systems are viable or safe. They should at minimum be forced to use radar in combination with their cameras. In fact I actually trust radar more than lidar because it’s much less susceptible to heavy snow or rain.