https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...
They also built a second narrowly focused longer range lidar that can be automatically pointed at the ROI of objects visuslly detected beyond the range of velodyne's ~200m.
https://medium.com/waymo/introducing-waymos-suite-of-custom-...
Both are used on their vehicles. If you have better hardware it makes the software problems higher up the stack easier.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i...
They also built a second narrowly focused longer range lidar that can be automatically pointed at the ROI of objects visuslly detected beyond the range of velodyne's ~200m.
https://medium.com/waymo/introducing-waymos-suite-of-custom-...
Both are used on their vehicles. If you have better hardware it makes the software problems higher up the stack easier.