WeatherBrains 889: Ankle Bracelet For Highway Jerks

Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 9:43 a.m.

b"Tonight's episode focuses on\\xa0how and why Waymo is essentially employing their fleet of autonomously driven vehicles as mobile weather stations and what it enables. By combining Waymo\\u2019s autonomous driving sensor suite \\u2014 complete with cameras, radar, and lidar \\u2014with high-quality ground-truth data from weather visibility sensors, Waymo\\u2019s engineers created a new quantitative metric about meteorological visibility that allows the Waymo Driver to generate estimates about the current weather and environmental states it's operating under."