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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.
A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2023. Credit - David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images. W e still don’t have flying cars or teleportation, but Waymo is making sci-fi ...
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 has so far avoided serious incidents, but it has made its share of headlines: In May, an unoccupied Waymo taxi hit a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Waymo to issue a voluntary ...
This article appears in the Jun/July 2024 issue of Fortune with the headline "How Waymo steered to the front of the pack and made self-driving taxis a reality." This story was originally featured ...
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]
Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. [citation needed] The first known fatal accident involving a vehicle being driven by itself took place in Williston, Florida on 7 May 2016 while a Tesla Model S electric car was engaged in Autopilot mode. The driver was killed in a crash with a large 18-wheel tractor-trailer.
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway ...