Autonomous trucking is poised to improve road safety and offer greater efficiency across the logistics industry. As we configure the Waymo Driver to operate Class 8 trucks and unlock these benefits, we’re pleased to share that Waymo has entered a broad, global, strategic partnership with Daimler Trucks, the global market leader in large commercial vehicles.… Continue reading Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
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The Waymo Driver Handbook: How our highly-detailed maps help unlock new locations for autonomous driving
For any emerging technology to be trusted, it helps to first be understood. In the past, people could see how their cars worked, looking under the hood and tinkering with them with the help of a user manual. In 2020, vehicles have so much technology that they’ve become difficult for the general public to comprehend.… Continue reading The Waymo Driver Handbook: How our highly-detailed maps help unlock new locations for autonomous driving
The Waymo Driver’s training regimen: How structured testing prepares our self-driving technology for the real world
Imagine a tiny city where you control everything that happens on the streets. You manage how many cars zip down the roads and how fast they are going. You dictate how many cyclists are on a roundabout or whether they follow the road rules. The “weather” around the vehicle can change multiple times a day… Continue reading The Waymo Driver’s training regimen: How structured testing prepares our self-driving technology for the real world
Meet the Winners of the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
In March 2020, we launched the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges, inviting researchers to build and test their machine learning models using Waymo’s diverse self-driving dataset. We received over 100 submissions from around the world and invited the winners to present their work at our virtual Workshop on Scalability in Autonomous Driving at CVPR 2020. Today,… Continue reading Meet the Winners of the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
Resuming our driving operations in Phoenix
Back in March, we decided to suspend our driving operations in response to COVID-19 to ensure the safety of everyone involved in our services and local communities. Starting this coming Monday, May 11, Arizonans will begin to see some Waymo vehicles back on the road. The first part of our tiered approach to safely resume… Continue reading Resuming our driving operations in Phoenix
Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver
To help safely navigate the complexities of the road, our self-driving technology needs to see and identify what’s around it. To perceive its surroundings, the Waymo Driver relies on our powerful custom sensor suite of lidar, cameras, and radars, while neural nets empower the “brain” of our self-driving system to understand the sensor data and… Continue reading Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver
Announcing Waymo’s Open Dataset Virtual Challenges
Last August, we invited the research community to join us in accelerating self-driving technology with the release of one of the largest multi-sensor self-driving datasets available today. Even as COVID-19 continues to develop, we are committed to fostering an environment of innovation and learning – one that can continue to grow and thrive in our… Continue reading Announcing Waymo’s Open Dataset Virtual Challenges
Introducing the 5th-generation Waymo Driver: Informed by experience, designed for scale, engineered to tackle more environments
In order to navigate the complexities of driving – from the biker weaving and speeding through traffic on a foggy San Francisco morning, to the family pet rushing into the street to greet you at night – the Waymo Driver uses a comprehensive view of its surroundings and a detailed understanding of its environment to… Continue reading Introducing the 5th-generation Waymo Driver: Informed by experience, designed for scale, engineered to tackle more environments
Seeing is Knowing: Advances in search and image recognition train Waymo’s self-driving technology for any encounter
At Waymo, we use machine learning to detect and classify different types of objects and road features. The powerful neural nets that make up our perception system learn to recognize objects and their corresponding behaviors from labeled examples of everything our Waymo Driver encounters, from joggers and cyclists, to traffic light colors and temporary road… Continue reading Seeing is Knowing: Advances in search and image recognition train Waymo’s self-driving technology for any encounter
Why I Ride with Waymo: Jean
Editor’s Note: In this next “Why I Ride with Waymo” post we catch up with Jean. Although she often rides with Waymo with her husband, Bob, Waymo offers them different benefits. For example, Bob likes how Waymo One allows them to be a one car household, while Jean prefers the predictably of Waymo One, especially… Continue reading Why I Ride with Waymo: Jean