Unfortunately the license for Waymo’s dataset is extremely restrictive and makes it hard to use practically without violating the license. Via Reddit user jaxb

Unfortunately the license for Waymo’s dataset is extremely restrictive and makes it hard to use practically without violating the license. Via Reddit user jaxbotme: “I have concerns about the license on this, which I [voiced on twitter](https://twitter.com/johnluu/status/1164227419919642624 https://twitter.com/johnluu/status/1164227419919642624) and got a reply from one of Waymo's comms people. Overall, it's free as in freeware but not free/open the way you might expect a research dataset to be. Not only are you prohibited from redistributing it (not too uncommon, but still limiting), but researchers cannot publish trained models or their weights, partially or in whole, and researchers cannot use the models on a physical car apparently. There are strong guards here to prevent competition, but they also get in the way of researchers and I feel like it's not really honest to call this an 'open dataset'. If anyone has counter examples where this is actually standard practice, let me know. But I was disappointed in this move for a number of reasons. For one, it would literally be illegal for me to provide this data to someone on a metered or slow connection who cannot download the dataset themselves.” https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/cthaba/waymo_open_dataset_sharing_our_selfdriving_data/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/cthaba/way...