Friday, August 23, 2019
Smart PR
Google's Waymo company has made freely available a huge amount of data for self-driving cars. It's not the first to do so, but its contribution to research is more nuanced than what other companies have provided. Waymo is the acknowledged leader in automated vehicles, so it is giving researchers a view of how far it has come and how far it needs to go. Researchers have learned to their chagrin that software can go only so far in steering and braking an auto safely. There are still too many variables that humans can handle and software not. By putting its datasets into the public arena, Waymo has a chance to advance the science and make some of its solutions standards in the industry. It is smart PR and recognition that together the industry can make progress.
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