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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Waymo, the self-driving car division ... “So we use a variety of sensors on the car. There’s cameras, there’s radars and lidar -- which is a laser range finding system.

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 ...

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After a man hopped behind the wheel of an autonomous Waymo vehicle and tried to drive off, the company offered assurances that the car’s technology includes protections against bad actors.

Thrun also headed the now-defunct Kittyhawk, a flying car project backed by Page. Thrun spoke to BI about Waymo's early aspirations ... Right now, I'd say the cost of lidar relative to IRAD ...