The Google offshoot wants to be ready for California when the state is ready for driverless taxis.
Waymo this week set three Chrysler Pacifica minivans crawling Los Angeles streets to make maps — but not the kind made for humans.
of the infrastructure around which cars travel — curbs, fire hydrants, potholes, fences and crosswalks.Self-driving vehicles are equipped with sensors that help them quickly identify traffic and pedestrians, but these maps can help provide a fuller picture to inform those split-second decisions.“We’re not looking for things like the name of a road,” like a human would, said Waymo spokeswoman Alexis Georgeson.
“We’re in an early phase,” Georgeson said. “We’re going to these different cities to learn. Driving in Los Angeles gives us the opportunity to learn in a new environment and understand different traffic patterns to advance our technology.” Waymo is experimenting with driverless taxis on public roads in Silicon Valley, shuttling employees to and from Google’s many office parks. But those cars have a human operator inside.
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