Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles

Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by ra7 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:43PM (#38711343)

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.

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Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by jessriedel on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:48PM (#38711401)

Thanks. Any recommended reading links on this?

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Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by ra7 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:52PM (#38712200)

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...

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Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by jessriedel on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @02:12PM (#38712403)

Thanks!

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Re:Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmar... by guiomie on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:27PM (#38715027)

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.

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