Sentences with phrase «driving car projects»

Despite slight improvement, those rates compare poorly to similar metrics from other self - driving car projects.

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.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The director of Google's self - driving car project wrote in a blog post Monday that development of the technology has entered a new stage: trying to master driving on city streets.

The journey to a law in California began in January 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Nevada legislator - turned - lobbyist David Goldwater began chatting up Anthony Levandowski, one of the self - driving car project's leaders.

For six years Anthony Levandowski worked on Google's self - driving car project, developing sensors, creating policies, and testing technology.

Self - driving technology could reduce spending on roadways, parking, and public transit, says Chris Urmson, director of Google's self - driving car project.

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.

Chris Urmson, the director of the company's self - driving cars project, says he wants his 12 - year - old son to be able to ride in an autonomous vehicle by the time he reaches driving age.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Apple has laid off dozens of employees on its self - driving car project, and closed down parts of the project entirely.

When Google first invited employees to join its self - driving car project, some of them doubted its future success.

The whole self - driving car project was «stupid,» Urmson recalled the man saying.

Currently, the tech titan currently has 53 self - driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., and Austin, Texas, according to the most recent report from Google on it's self - driving car project.

And while Porat bragged about the Google self - driving car project's recent milestone of 2 million miles driven, the company still hasn't brought the cars to market, despite being one of the first companies to embark on the project more than seven years ago.

Aurora has been a much - watched startup because it was founded by three of Silicon Valley's most famous self - driving engineers: former Google self - driving car project head Chris Urmson; the former head of Tesla Autopilot, Sterling Anderson; and former Uber self - driving star engineer Drew Bagnell.

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

He also heads X's Project Loon, the balloon - based beaming internet project; Google's self - driving car project; and Makani, X's kite - based wind power initiative.

Meanwhile, the company's self - driving car project still hasn't announced any business plan and a bunch of people have left.

Levandowski, who had previously led Alphabet's self - driving car project, has been accused of stealing technology and taking it to Uber.

«It's going from looking just in front, like a flashlight, to a lantern all around the car,» said self - driving car project director Chris Urmson.

Between September 1, 2015 and March 22, 2016: Levandowski accessed 347 files on his personal devices that included proprietary information about his work on Google's self - driving car project that included «confidential presentations regarding the self - driving car and its marketing and business plans; videos of features and test drives of the self - driving car; pictures of the self - driving car and multiple components; notes pertaining to plans for the self - driving car; diagrams of vehicle components marked confidential; system files; software files; and code regarding the self - driving car.»

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.

As part of the acquisition, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick put Otto co-founder — and one of the first employees of Google's self - driving car project — Anthony Levandowski at the head of all of its autonomous technology efforts.

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.

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

Google, which recently lost its chief technologist Chris Urmson, has yet to publicly announce a path to revenue for its self - driving car project.

The Google self - driving car project is spinning out of the X moonshot lab and officially becoming an Alphabet company.

Perhaps the most compelling feature of the company, which is still in semi-stealth mode, is that it was co-founded by two former top executives of Google's self - driving car project: Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson.

When Chris Urmson announced he was leaving Google X's self - driving car project, he wrote: «If I can find another project that turns into an obsession and becomes something more, I will consider myself twice lucky.»

«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.

Google's parent firm Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working to develop autonomous vehicles on its own for years, but the company's head of its self - driving car project John Krafcik said the firm has reached a point at which more partnerships would be beneficial to the project's...

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 — Google has lost the man sitting in the technological driver's seat of its pioneering self - driving car project.

Last August, just months after its founding, Otto was bought by Uber for $ 670 million and Levandowski was tapped to run Uber's nascent self driving car project.

Chris Urmson, who has served as director of the self - driving car project, will remain its technical director with Krafcik stepping into a new CEO role.

Google's self - driving car project has hired another senior leader in a sign that, just maybe, it is inching its way to becoming a stand - alone company and an actual real - world thing.

«When Google announced the launch of their self - driving car project, there was a great deal of excitement,» said Jeffrey Greenblatt, one of the co-authors of the study, «but nobody seemed to be looking at how these cars could impact greenhouse gas emissions.»

Even before the Google self - driving car project became a division of Alphabet and brought in auto veteran John Krafcik, executives were open about the fact they wanted automakers as partners to supply vehicles while Google would provide the latest in self - driving vehicle technology.

«NHTSA will interpret «driver» in the context of Google's described motor vehicle design as referring to the SDS [self - driving system], and not to any of the vehicle occupants,» NHTSA wrote in a letter to Google's self - driving car project director, Chris Urmson.

DETROIT — Google plans to test its autonomous car prototypes on northern California roads «later this year» says Chris Urmson (below, right), director of the Internet search engine giant's self - driving car project.

Chris Urmson, the director of Google's self - driving car project, took the stage at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas to shed some light on the circumstances surrounding the road accident caused by one of the tech giant's autonomous vehicles.

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.

In a major partnership announcement, the former Google Self - Driving Car Project is aligning with Jaguar Land Rover to make that company's EV SUV fully autonomous.

The Google Self - Driving Car Project is part of X, a moonshot factory that's part of Google's parent company Alphabet.

«FCA has a nimble and experienced engineering team and the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan is well - suited for Google's self - driving technology,» said John Krafcik, Chief Executive Officer, Google Self - Driving Car Project.

May 3, 2016, Auburn Hills, Mich. - The Google Self - Driving Car Project and FCA announced today, in a first - of - its - kind collaboration, that they will integrate Google's self - driving technology into all - new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans to expand Google's existing self - driving test program.