Sentences with phrase «many car projects»

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.

With the Apple Car project has underway for two years, it would somehow take the tech colossus seven years to create and market an automobile to meet what had once appeared to be Cook's expectations.

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.

Apple also has autonomous car projects, AI - based speakers, augmented and virtual reality, etc in their labs.

If it was going to take Apple that long to bring a car to market, then we could only draw two conclusions: Apple wanted to develop a vehicle to use future technologies that aren't practical or accessible today, or Apple is completely incompetent when it comes to this car project.

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.

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

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.

Google will reportedly make its driverless car project a standalone subsidiary this year.

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.

You've talked generally about autos, but you haven't commented on Apple's widely reported car project.

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.

Most are built at a cost of around $ 100, though there are some full size car projects that cost up to $ 15,000.

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.

Our un-driver for the day was Chris Urmson, the director of Google's five - year - old self - driving - car project.

«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.

The CFO wasn't specific, but one of the people familiar with the situation said the comments referred to the car project compensation.

Other new businesses, including health care unit Verily, use different compensation systems too, but they have yet to generate huge payouts like the car project.

Earlier, he had said that his company was working on a flying cars project which will see trials in five years and a commercial launch in ten years.

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.

Sebastian Thrun, who started the car project and helped design the pay system, didn't respond to questions, either.

But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long way: Google's vehicles had logged more than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto industry.

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.

Baidu is hoping to take its autonomous car project to the next level through a partnership with high performance chip maker Nvidia.

«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.

That doesn't mean there aren't still DOTs building big car projects, but there's a generational shift happening.

As per the blog, BlackBerry QNX plans to hire local software engineers to work on connected and autonomous car projects.

That includes its ongoing technological efforts to get rid of the most costly part of its business model (the driver) via self - driving car tech; targeting 2020 for a demo of a flying car project called Uber Elevate; and, last week, announced it was pushing into the trucking space with Uber Freight.

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.

Elon Musk, the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla, says that the company is least concerned about Apple's own electric car project.

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

Additionally, many affiliated with the high - profile car project have started similar or competing companies immediately after their departure.

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.