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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. [2] [3] In 2016, he co-founded and sold Otto, an autonomous trucking company, to Uber Technologies.
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Levandowski is the engineer who co-founded Google's self-driving program in 2009 — then named Project Chauffeur, now called Waymo — and is considered a pioneer of the autonomous vehicle industry.
At present self-driving vehicles in the UK are largely limited to a bus shuttle across the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland and the Heathrow Pod, which connects Terminal 5 with a car park along a ...
In March 2018, the death of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona was the first reported fatal crash involving a self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian in the United States. [132] Later in the same month, San Francisco police issued a ticket to the passenger of a self-driving car that had failed to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. [133]
Getting self-driving cars to actually work… at least according to the boss of Waymo, Google's self-driving vehicle spinoff. In an interview with the Financial Times, Waymo's Chief Executive John ...
March 2017 - An Uber self-driving car was hit and flipped on its side by another vehicle that failed to yield. In October 2017, Uber started using only one test driver. April 2017 - Waymo started a large scale robotaxi tests in a geo-fenced suburb of Phoenix, Arizona with a driver monitoring each vehicle.
Self-driving cars have been a hot topic for years. In 2024, the levels of automation have advanced significantly. With more companies investing in autonomous vehicle technologies, consumers now ...