Autonomous vehicle company Waymo provided a glimpse of its autonomous truck technology in a blog post this week, as the Alphabet-backed startup best known for self-driving passenger vehicles steps up its delivery and freight program.
Waymo said its autonomous vehicle software powers its self-driving vehicles across modes and that to configure the system for Class 8 big rigs, engineers take into account the fact that trucks require more time and space to maneuver and can have different blind spots than cars.
Among the differences between its passenger and delivery applications is an increased number of sensors applied to the trucks. Specifically, the trucks feature two “perception domes” versus the one on the passenger cars.
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