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Waymo Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid undergoing testing in the San Francisco Bay Area (2017) Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
(Reuters) - Alphabet's self-driving unit, Waymo, said on Friday it had closed a $5.6 billion funding round led by the Google parent, as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service.
But Waymo has come a long way since Google began working on self-driving cars in 2009 as part of project “Chauffeur.” Since its 2016 spinoff from Google, Waymo has established itself as the ...
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer. [1] In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016.
Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet that began as the Google Self-Driving Project in 2009, only started offering rides to the public without human safety drivers within the past few years.
Mountain View, California-based Waymo is a self-driving technology pioneer, which started its first U.S. driverless taxi service in 2020 over a decade after it was born as a project within Google.
Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Google's Waymo, says Tesla has a huge advantage in data. "I'd rather be in the Tesla's shoes than in the Waymo's shoes," Levandowski told Business Insider.
Alphabet's (GOOGL) unit Waymo raises $2.5 billion to strengthen its operations and advance the self-driving technology.