Waymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge
In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the largest multimodal corpus for autonomous driving. The Alphabet subsidiary since augmented the set with an additional 10.6 million 2D labels (up from 1.2 million labels). Today, Waymo made available an expanded version of the corpus with an additional 800 segments, which Waymo expects will make it easier for researchers to build safe self-driving models from scratch without incurring the cost of collecting their own data.