Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent strongly worded thoughts on LiDAR laser sensors, which bring 3D imaging to a self-driving car’s computer, are still reverberating throughout the autonomous vehicle community. Waymo’s head engineers and scientists are now defending its sensor choices for the company’s self-driving taxi service.
At a Waymo event during the Google I/O developer conference at headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Alphabet-owned company’s CTO Dmitri Dolgov and other engineering leaders all but shook their heads when Musk’s recent comments about autonomous vehicles came up on Wednesday. Read more…
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