Google Self Driving Car Waymo

Alphabet, Inc.’s—formerly Google—autonomous vehicle project has gone obsolete. But instead of scrapping the project altogether, it now forms as a subsidiary company to Alphabet under the new label – Waymo. 

This is despite the recent struggle of the ambitious project is getting by both Alphabet and Apple which, instead of developing their own cars by scratch are looking to partner with existing car manufacturing companies, only not to pan out as intended.

For instance, Alphabet via Google X, in spite of several years of research and experience with the concept of self-driving and having been linked to a handful of car-making companies, namely Ford, General Motors, Uber, and Fiat-Chrysler, no partnership has really materialized.

Google Waymo

Ford has a plan of doing the same project alone which has an expected release of 2021 while Uber has instead found a partner with Volvo in developing the same project.

On the other hand, Apple, too, also has its take in the same project as Alphabet is pursuing via the alleged “Project Titan” as the company try to develop on the so-called “Apple Car”, with a justified capability given the company’s sound cash reserves. But like Alphabet, it is also not going too well with Apple with regards to the project.

Not only does the company gets sued for poaching another company’s prized employees as is the case with battery maker A123, but recent news from the New York Times also seem to suggest that Apple is laying off some of its engineers from a several hundred team.

Source: Google | Via: Arstechnica

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