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Google's development of self-driving technology began in January 17, 2009, [4] [non-primary source needed] at Google X lab, run by co-founder Sergey Brin. [3] The project was launched at Google by Sebastian Thrun, the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and Anthony Levandowski, founder of 510 Systems and Anthony's Robots.
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.
The company was founded by engineers of Google's self-driving car project, Waymo. Zhu served as the principal software engineer and Ferguson joined in 2011 as the principal machine learning engineer. [4] [5] Zhu and Ferguson left Waymo in 2016 and founded Nuro that September. [6]
In December 2020, Waymo was the first to offer rides in self-driving taxis to the public in limited geographic areas (SAE Level 4), [7] [failed verification] and as of April 2024 offers services in Arizona (Phoenix) and California (San Francisco and Los Angeles).
Waymo's limit A screenshot shared with BI showed that Tung's ride began around 6:30 a.m. and ended around 1:10 p.m. The engineer had the Waymo drive by landmark spots and pick up a friend for a ...
Dmitri Dolgov is a Russian-American engineer who is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo. Previously, he worked on self-driving cars at Toyota and Stanford University for the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007). Dolgov then joined Waymo's predecessor, Google's Self-Driving Car Project
John F. Krafcik (born September 18, 1961) was the CEO of Waymo from 2015 to 2021. Krafcik was the former president of TrueCar and president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America.He was named CEO of Google's self-driving car project in September 2015. [1]
Tekedra Mawakana is an American businesswoman and lawyer and is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo.Previously, she was the company's chief operating officer, and prior employers have included Steptoe & Johnson, AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay.