LOS ANGELES: Waymo this week set three Chrysler Pacifica minivans crawling Los Angeles streets to make maps – but not the kind made for humans.
Google's autonomous vehicle offshoot deployed the vans not to chart the layout of the city's streets and avenues, but instead to craft 3D maps of the infrastructure around which cars travel – curbs, fire hydrants, potholes, fences and crosswalks.
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