The Google project was rebranded Waymo in 2016, two years after Thrun had already left the search engine company to start up a tech school. Thrun also headed the now-defunct Kittyhawk, a flying car ...

Waymo is now running a robotaxi service ... which is most likely LIDAR. You get one sensor in each corner of the car pointing directly sideways, presumably as lookouts for lane changing.

At the outset of its autonomous vehicle program in 2009, Google adapted existing automobile platforms to use for its ...

The experience feels largely same as an Uber. Our car was an all-electric, driverless Jaguar I-Pace. The Waymo uses lidar, radar, cameras and AI to navigate the streets, all safer than humans ...

Yet, few autonomous vehicles are as well-known as Google’s self-driving car project ... Pacifica Hybrid MPVs, Waymo’s autonomous vehicle technology involves lidar, cameras and other sensors ...

The small mound on the back of Waymo's self-driving cars is for sale. The Alphabet-owned autonomous car company is making its "homemade" LiDAR sensor, the Laser Bear Honeycomb, available to other ...

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The fifth generation of the Waymo Driver was introduced in 2020, featuring a combination of lidar, cameras ... developing its own dedicated robotaxi (Firefly). Firefly was a two-door prototype ...

"I'm in a Waymo car … and this car is just going in circles." In the video, the car can be heard connecting to Waymo support for assistance. "I received notification that your car might be ...

a car that helped Google promote its self-driving efforts in a self-effacing way. But retiring the Firefly, whether it was meant for more or not, gave Waymo the freedom to focus on the bigger ...