Sentences with phrase «car project waymo»

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It's been an exciting year for self - driving car projects that people can actually see and experience in the real world: In December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into cars.

Waymo filed a sworn testimony by Gary Brown, a forensic - security engineer, who said Anthony Levandowski, a former employee, had downloaded 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary files relating to Waymo's self - driving - car project.

Notable moonshot projects include Project Loon, which wants to provide internet connectivity to remote areas of the world using balloons, and Waymo, Google's self - driving car company.

Waymo, the subsidiary of Alphabet formerly known as the Google Self Driving Car Project, is poised to offer its autonomous - drive technology in millions of vehicles as it lowers costs for key components and improves the reliability of its self - driving.

Waymo, Google's self - driving car project, will start testing its autonomous vehicles in Michigan.

Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts — like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self - driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects — while Google's advertising - oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.

Waymo — formerly the Google self - driving car project — stands for a new way forward in mobility.

Waymo, the self - driving car unit of Alphabet, accused Uber of poaching Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who led Google's self - driving car project since 2011.

In the past few years, Alphabet has poured money into its self - driving car company, Waymo, the anti-aging project Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy - kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, anproject Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy - kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, anproject called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, anProject Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, anproject called Project Wing, anProject Wing, and more.

Levandowski is at the heart of an ongoing legal battle between Uber and Waymo, the Alphabet company that resulted from Google's self - driving car project.

«We're excited where we are right now,» said John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, formerly known as the Google self - driving car project and now a separate company within Google's parent company, Alphabet.

John Krafcik, CEO of Alphabet's veteran self - driving project Waymo, meanwhile tweeted out a photo Monday of a self - driving car testing in a winter wonderland.

«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer of 2015, that he had talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving car project,» a sworn testimony from Waymo engineer Pier - Yvez Droz reads.

«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer of 2015, that he had talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving car project,» Pierre Yvez - Droz, an engineer at Waymo, wrote in a sworn testimony.

The big news is that Waymo's self - driving cars — previously known as Google's self - driving project — navigated public roads without human intervention four times better than it did last year.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

SAN FRANCISCO — Waymo, the self - driving car business spun out of Google's parent company, claimed in a federal lawsuit on Thursday that Uber was using intellectual property stolen by one of Google's former project leaders.

Source: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Press Release is on Page 2 CA Delivers 100 Uniquely Built Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Minivans to Waymo for Self - driving Test Fleet Waymo and FCA reveal first look at fully self - driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan Program kickoff to full vehicle assembly completed by technical teams in six months December 19, 2016, Auburn Hills, Mich. - Waymo (formerly the Google self - driving car project) and FCA announced today that production of 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans uniquely built to enable fully self - driving operations has been completed.

Waymo (formerly the Google self - driving car project) will add an additional 500 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans (earlier post) to expand its self - driving program.

Waymo, the former Google Self - Driving Car Project, already has a fleet of autonomous Pacifica minivans racking up the miles.

Waymo, the former Google self - driving car project, is stepping up its efforts to get autonomous - driving tech ready for prime time.

Waymo — formerly the Google self - driving car project — stands for a new way forward in mobility.

Waymo, née Google Self - Driving Car Project, now moves from Google moon shot to a fully - fledged business under parent company Alphabet.

Waymo, the self - driving car unit of Alphabet, accused Uber of poaching Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who led Google's self - driving car project since 2011.

Waymo, the self - driving car project of Google, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Uber that alleges one of its former employees stole the proprietary design of Waymo's self - driving car system.

According to the 28 - page complaint filed in a California federal court (which is available below), Waymo says a former manager of the self - driving car project, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded more than 14,000 «highly confidential and proprietary files shortly before his resignation.»

Outside of its consumer - facing hardware products, Alphabet is known for its «moonshot» ideas including Waymo, the self - driving car project, Project Loon, the balloon project being used to supply cellular service to the disaster - stricken Puerto Rico, and Googleproject, Project Loon, the balloon project being used to supply cellular service to the disaster - stricken Puerto Rico, and GoogleProject Loon, the balloon project being used to supply cellular service to the disaster - stricken Puerto Rico, and Googleproject being used to supply cellular service to the disaster - stricken Puerto Rico, and Google Fiber.

Updated Waymo's roots stretch back to Google's self - driving car project, but now it's taken on a life of its own.

Waymo is a startup that Google created for its self - driving car project late last year.

Earlier this month, Google revealed it was shaking up its autonomous car efforts by spinning its self - driving project into an all - new company, Waymo, and it appointed the project's division head, John Krafcik, as CEO.

During the trial in February, lawyers for Waymo — the rebranded Google self - driving car project — painted a picture of a problem employee who clashed with his new boss over his slower, more cautious approach to self - driving cars.

Waymo's cars have driven over 4 million self - driven miles since it began as a Google project in 2009.