Today is Remembrance Day, but it’s likely that many of you have forgotten about Project Arrow . Named after the Canadian-made Avro Arrow interceptor aircraft from the 1950s, this all-electric SUV concept with autonomous driving capabilities is a collaboration between nearly 60 different companies in Canada and led by the …
It’s a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!
I’m not actually sure how much the hardware for self-driving costs. The billions being poured in are for the software development, and once software is made it can be copied for free, like the Chinese did with LLMs recently.
That being said, this was a concept car. They might leave that and the gimmicky smartfabric out in a production version. And have doors that both open the same way, so people can all exit at once in a crowded parking lot.
I should really say “by car standards”. Of course a GPU isn’t free, but when a low-end new EV costs 30,000-50,000CAD the extra couple grand isn’t too crazy. If you don’t want it, I guess it’s still a couple grand, though.
Again, though, I could see the licensing costing an order of magnitude more, although I don’t really know.
it cost over $1000 due to the optics/sensor unit behind the windshield
That actually just seems like robbery, haha. We’re talking about the kind that detects fouling, which probably is a glorified mouse tracker, right?
I’m not actually sure how much the hardware for self-driving costs. The billions being poured in are for the software development, and once software is made it can be copied for free, like the Chinese did with LLMs recently.
That being said, this was a concept car. They might leave that and the gimmicky smartfabric out in a production version. And have doors that both open the same way, so people can all exit at once in a crowded parking lot.
Lidar, all the cameras/sensors, and the processing unit for all this definitely cost money.
My car it cost $300 to replace a windshield. My wife’s it cost over $1000 due to the optics/sensor unit behind the windshield
I should really say “by car standards”. Of course a GPU isn’t free, but when a low-end new EV costs 30,000-50,000CAD the extra couple grand isn’t too crazy. If you don’t want it, I guess it’s still a couple grand, though.
Again, though, I could see the licensing costing an order of magnitude more, although I don’t really know.
That actually just seems like robbery, haha. We’re talking about the kind that detects fouling, which probably is a glorified mouse tracker, right?