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Waymo’s new robotaxi will feature fewer sensors to help lower costs

Waymo is keeping an eye on the tariffs situation.

In the post, Waymo VP of engineering Satish Jeyachandran touts the new robotaxi as more high tech than past iterations, while also featuring fewer sensors to help reduce costs for the Alphabet-owned company. And within its high-powered computer, it contains all the learnings of the previous five generations of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles, meaning it won’t have to do as much real-world testing as past models before it can be rolled out to the public. Motional, which also aims to launch a robotaxi service, recently outlined its plans to give radar a more prominent role to account for the high cost of lidar sensors.

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