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Google spins off self-driving car efforts into new Alphabet business, Waymo

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Google has spun off its self-driving car (SDC) efforts in a new Alphabet (Google’s parent company) business called Waymo. In a post introducing Waymo, John Krafcik noted that since 2009, Google SDC prototypes have spent the equivalent of 300 years of driving time on the road.

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San Antonio Hyundai Dealer Removes Landmark

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Here’s a Google Streetview image from that era. The place changed hands, as dealers tend to do, eventually switching to the Hyundai brand around the 2009 bankruptcy of General Motors, perhaps as part of Old GM’s culling of its dealer body in an effort to stave off annihilation and as part of its rebuilding process. Texas, ya’ll.

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Groupe Renault and Nissan sign exclusive alliance deal with Waymo to explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan

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Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on improving transportation for all people by building the world’s most experienced driver. The Alliance of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi has a global footprint and portfolio covering every segment of passenger and light commercial vehicles.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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Waymo – Autonomous driving project of Google Google started autonomous car projects in 2009. They say that their journey started at Google in 2009, and became Waymo in 2016. Government policies are not in favor of using autonomous vehicles widely.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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