Waymo's robotaxis are equipped with five lidars, six radar sensors, and 29 cameras. Waymo says lidar and radar help the robotaxi detect pedestrians before cameras can. The company showed how ...

Waymo's robotaxis are equipped with five lidars, six radar sensors, and 29 cameras. Waymo says lidar and radar help the robotaxi detect pedestrians before cameras can. The company showed how 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 ...

Over time, the Waymo cars have become linked, in my mind, to another local phenomenon: the yellow, cartoon honey bears, rendered in a two-tone Pop-art style, that proliferated throughout San ...

“Trying to write that down in rules based on how many meters per second each vehicle is traveling is really hard,” says Brad Newman, the head of Waymo ... Lidar works by sending pulses of ...

Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo will soon venture out of its comfort zone and begin sending its Lidar-equipped Chrysler Pacifica minivans to New York City. While New Yorkers might start to ...

The Reuters report also states that Tim Willis, previously general manager of Waymo’s short-range “Laser Bear” lidar offering, left the company earlier this year to join rival developer Aeva.

The LiDAR system developed by Waymo, called Laser Bear Honeycomb, was first produced in 2017 and stated to be far cheaper than mainstream solutions. Specifically, it was said that the cost of LiDAR ...

It initially planned to sell its short-range sensor (known as Laser Bear Honeycomb ... Waymo's fifth-generation Driver technology uses an array of sensors — including radar, lidar, and cameras ...