That's just some good old Musk/Tesla propaganda. Waymo has developed a really high resolution lidar + some software magic means rain is no longer an issue for them.

Thanks. Any recommended reading links on this?

Their 5th gen Lidar point clouds compared it to previous gen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgEQuqTAug&t=11601s

They have a ton of literature at https://waymo.com/research/ and tech talks on YouTube (search talks by Drago Anguelov). They make heavy use of simulators [1] where they simulate weather events and create their own weather maps [2]. It's a very sophisticated stack.

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2021/06/SimulationCity.html

[2] https://waymo.com/blog/2022/11/using-cutting-edge-weather-re...

Thanks!

The kind of comment I expect from hacker news, thanks!

Its impressive how the lidar resolution evolved as per the youtube video. The color added, i wonder if its post-processing.

The current Waymo driver uses cameras, RADAR and LIDAR, which are meant to compliment each other's capabilities.

https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-the...

I thought the opposite. I thought this was one of the main reasons in favor of LIDAR vs regular cameras.

Probably using remote human operators to make numbers look better.

there are many video showing waymo trips during rain or even (heavy) fog

few examples : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aBNYcBoLI ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TGFA6SfAo