Waymo is making some of its self-driving car data available for free to researchers

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The data collected by self-driving cars used to be a closely guarded secret. But recently, many companies developing autonomous driving systems have begun to release their data to the research community in dribs and drabs. The latest to do so is Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, which today is making some of the high-resolution sensor data gathered by its fleet of autonomous vehicles available to researchers.Waymo says its dataset contains 1,000 driving