3 self-driving Waymo vans are in Los Angeles to build elaborate 3D maps of the city using laser lidar sensors, digital cameras and radar
Three self-driving Waymo vans have come to Los Angeles to build elaborate 3D maps of the city using laser lidar sensors, digital cameras and radar.Traffic-clogged Los Angeles hasn’t been a factor in the race to perfect self-driving car tech, with R&D and testing concentrated in Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and even Las Vegas. But that’s finally changing as autonomous minivans from Alphabet Inc.
Three Waymo vans, loaded with the same laser lidar sensors, radar, digital cameras and computers used for its fleets in Mountain View, California, and Chandler, Arizona, where the company runs a paid ride service, on Monday start rolling around downtown Los Angeles and the city’s heavily trafficked Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard, a neighborhood wedged between Koreatown and Beverly Hills. They’re being driven by Waymo technicians, and there’s no plan to pick up passengers.
“Congestion is a totally different thing and we’re really excited to see how that congestion kind of manifests itself,” David Margines, Waymo’s product manager for mapping, tells. “Is it similar to San Francisco congestion and the behavior of San Francisco? Or given the way L.A.
Waymo's mapping system creates images that combine laser lidar, camera and radar data, focused on topographical features and road conditions.The expansion to Los Angeles comes as Waymo prepares its robotic fleet to handle increasingly diverse road conditions, from hectic, slow-moving San Francisco, leafy Silicon Valley, higher-speed Phoenix suburbs, snowy Michigan, rainy suburban Seattle and.
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