Lyft is offering their autonomous driving dataset to the public

Lyft is offering a set of autonomous driving data to to the public that it calls the “largest public dataset of its kind,” containing over 55,000 3D frames of captured footage, hand-labeled by human reviewers, data collected by 7 cameras and as many as 3 lidars depending on the car used, plus a drivable surface map and HD spatial semantic data that corresponds to the captured info to provide context to researchers.

Lyft will also host a competition to inspire use of the data, with $25,000 in cash prizes and a presentation plus job interview opportunity at the NeurIPS conference this December.

Darrell Etherington