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Waymo making appearance in New York city to map areas

Meghana Kandra by Meghana Kandra
November 4, 2021
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Waymo is entering New York City in the US, not to provide autonomous rides but to map out location. The company is far from being able to provide its services in the locality. Currently, the services are provided in California in approved locations.

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Waymo is bringing its autonomous vehicles to New York City for (manually  driven) mapping - The Verge
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Waymo will map out the area by sending the vehicles manually throughout the city. Up to five vans hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivans from the south side of Central Park to the financial district. The vans will travel on Manhattan streets through  Lincoln Tunnel to a small section of New Jersey. Waymo mentions that they plan to add more Jaguar i-PACEs, all of them to be driven manually. These vehicles will have two people in them, one driver and one person to navigate through the locations. With this, they will monitor the software on the vehicle so that the performance can be evaluated accordingly.

Despite not using the autonomous features, the vehicles will be equipped with a fifth-generation Waymo driver. Using a combination of radar, cameras, and lidar the autonomous feature is informed by 20 million miles on public roads and a simulation of 10 billion miles.

Mapping the routes

A Waymo spokesperson talked to TechCrunch saying that mapping is a critical process for the development of their technology. Further talked about how it works, stating, “Here’s how it works: First, we drive our Waymo vehicles on public roads and collect information with our sensor suite. Next, we take that information, clean it up and automatically or manually annotate it with features such as crosswalks, road edges, curb heights, boundary paint, intersections, etc. Then we put our newly created map through quality control testing. This process is the same no matter where we go, and is also the same process we follow when updating our maps.”

The vehicles will be able to run in any weather conditions. It would be a unique opportunity for the company for knowing the possible opportunities in the city. New York has always been known for the number of taxis in the location. If autonomous vehicles are deployed effectively it would be a gaming-changing aspect in the industry. The company says that the various weather conditions from rain, summer to snowfall in winter can all be experienced in the city. They want to access the performance of their vehicles in every weather condition. For starting autonomous vehicle services, Waymo needs New York’s autonomous vehicle technology testing permit.

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Meghana Kandra

Meghana studied PGD in Journalism, open university. She has more than five years of experience in content writing, from creative content development to online journalism. Electric vehicle enthusiast, engineer, and feminist.

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