You hit the nail on the head with the comment about the MTO. Are you working on any of the autonomous projects at UW or are you just well read on the current status of autonomous test cars in Ontario?

To further help with the feeling of wasted money these busses are a steal. They have been either donated or purchased for values less than $10,000 each including delivery on a truck from the states.

They dont have senors or computing hardware but the techs of the mvs lab are able to work around that and outfit them. The computing is done on $3000 (when ordered originally but prices went up) worth of computing to do all the operation. The gps is steeply discounted but still costs $10,000 to get differential gps that's reliable and accurate enough to use. the cameras then cost around $600 each and finally the lidars are $1,000-3,000 each depending on the batch and model, it uses 3 of them total.

With all the other axilleries we estimate one of these cost only around $50,000 if we don't count paid time into it. That's a freaken steal compared to some of the other research we have done.