Sentences with phrase «self driving car division»

The beleaguered company removed a major figure from its self driving car division.

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The move was the apparent result of his involvement in the legal standoff between Uber and Waymo, the self - driving car division spun out of Google last year.

As part of its effort to bring self - driving vehicles to market, GM has claimed today that their autonomous driving division has produced «the first real self - driving car (really).»

The document outlines operational details of a startup founded by Anthony Levandowski, who was a lead engineer in Alphabet's self - driving car division.

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, and more.

Key members of its self - driving car division have left, and a recent report on tech website Recode described the company's autonomous car team as being in a «mini-Civil War.»

August 2016: The original heads of Uber's self - driving division, including former director John Bares, planned to have cars on the road by this time.

By contrast, Alphabet's self - driving car division, Waymo, is building some of its own hardware, like the laser - based radars called lidar, in a bid to supply carmakers and other self - driving technology companies.

Google is hiring a new director for its self - driving car division, and it's none other than the former chief of Airbnb's vacation rental business Shaun Stewart.

As the lawsuit intensified, Levandowski stepped down from his position running Uber's self - driving car division, but the legal dispute is not over yet.

The self - driving car unit now resides in the research division called Google X.

Uber was a latecomer to self - driving cars; Waymo, Google's autonomous division, and even Tesla seemed poised to beat it to market.

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.

Reuters reports that in a call with reporters, Kyle Vogt, the head of GM's Cruise Automation division, said he's seeing «rapid progress» towards releasing fully self - driving cars.

This partnership could be part of Google's recent announcement that it would spin off its self - driving car division into a separate company under the Alphabet corporate umbrella, meaning that this business unit would be separate from Ford as well.

An entirely separate division from Oculus, Building 8 is structured similarly to Google's advanced technology group, or ATAP, and is also similar to X, the «moonshot» lab where Google's self - driving cars were born.

In July, the pair announced Lyft's new self - driving division, and launched a system that could one day enable car manufacturers to develop autonomous vehicles more quickly.

John Krafcik, the CEO of Google's self - driving car division, who joined the team last year from Hyundai, tweeted, «Chris is an incredible colleague [and] leader.

So far, Google's self - driving car division Waymo has been testing its technology on Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

Waymo, the self - driving car division of Alphabet, has been testing its autonomous vehicles at the Castle facility outside Atwater, California, since 2012.

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.