Data is a critical ingredient for machine learning. Our vehicles have collected over 10 million autonomous miles in 25 cities; this rich and diverse set of real world experiences has helped our engineers and researchers develop Waymo’s self-driving technology and innovative models and algorithms.

Today, we are inviting the research community to join us with the release of the Waymo Open Dataset, a high-quality multimodal sensor dataset for autonomous driving. Available free to researchers at waymo.com/open, it is comprised of high-resolution sensor data collected by Waymo self-driving vehicles. The dataset covers a wide variety of environments, from dense urban centers to suburban landscapes, as well as data collected during day and night, at dawn and dusk, in sunshine and rain.

The Waymo Open Dataset covers a wide variety of environments from dense urban centers to suburban landscapes, as well as data collected during day and night, at dawn and dusk, in sunshine and rain.

We believe it is one of the largest, richest, and most diverse self-driving datasets ever released for research.