What Happened: Waymo’s sixth-generation system builds on its predecessor and has 13 cameras, four lidar sensors, ... (EARs) to enhance the performance of its sensor suite.

Waymo Laser Bear Honeycomb short-range lidar sensor. Waymo. Over its 10 years of working on automated driving systems, Waymo has kept important details of its technology notoriously secret.

Waymo's decision to offer fully driverless rides to the general public signals that the company believes it can do so safely. The question now is how quickly it can scale its service up nationally ...

Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is expanding its coverage in metro Phoenix, growing what was already the largest contiguous autonomous vehicle service area in the world. The company ...

Waymo sought to begin adding up to 62,000 minivans to its fleet before the end of 2018, and it has signed a deal with Jaguar Land Rover to equip 20,000 of the automaker’s Jaguar i-Pace electric ...

Waymo, meanwhile, already operates robotaxis in select cities. The company deploys its sensor suite on vehicles manufactured by other automakers, such as Jaguar vehicles, for use as robotaxis ...

Last month, Google's newly-renamed self-driving division Waymo unveiled its newest test model, the Chrysler Pacifica. Today, during the North American Auto Show's Automobili-D conference, the CEO ...

Waymo's steady march eastward across the US will soon see robotaxi fleets roll out in Washington DC, Atlanta, and Miami, with the sector leader already providing 250,000 rides each week in Austin ...

Waymo, meanwhile, already operates robotaxis in select cities. The company deploys its sensor suite on vehicles manufactured by other automakers, such as Jaguar vehicles, for use as robotaxis ...

Waymo has open-sourced the Waymo Open Dataset, calling it the largest corpus for autonomous vehicle multimodal sensors released to date. Skip to main content Events Video Special Issues Jobs ...

Waymo, the company that grew out of Google’s self-driving car initiative, is seeking autonomy in more ways than one. Its latest move is to take in-house the design of the sensor packages on ...

Alphabet's autonomous driving tech unit Waymo on Monday introduced its 6th generation hardware aimed at reducing cost while simultaneously delivering more performance, including in winter.