Waymo is making some of its self-driving car data available for free to researchers

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The technology needed to get a vehicle to work autonomously is a very difficult task. So much so that Waymo, a leading company in the field, has decided to share with its competitors the data that their vehicles have been collecting.

"The bigger brains we can gather to solve the problems, even if they do not come from our company, the better," says Drago Anguelov, principal scientist at Waymo.

On a normal day, an autonomous test car can collect more than 4 gross Tb of data, but not all of those are useful.

Subsequently, it is necessary that many people analyze and record the most relevant situations in which the vehicle is involved.

Only after all this process can the algorithms be made, which will attempt to predict the behavior of all the elements involved in autonomous driving.

Gathering and sharing the driving datasets that all companies have, the long-awaited arrival of autonomous vehicles of level 5 can be greatly expedited, that is those vehicles that do not even have a steering wheel.

Source: theverge.com, read original article
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/21/20822755/waymo-self-driving-car-data-set-free-research


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