{"id":76530,"date":"2016-12-19T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=76530"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:52:31","slug":"googe-waymo-self-driving-company","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/googe-waymo-self-driving-company","title":{"rendered":"Googe Launches Waymo, a Self-Driving Car Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is spinning off its autonomous driving program into a separate company, Alphabet announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>The new company, called <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\">Waymo<\/a>, will be headed by John Krafcik, will remain under the Google umbrella, specifically as a unit of X, Google&#8217;s moonshot division that tackles ambitious, futuristic projects.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo is testing self-driving cars in four states but can&#8217;t offer a timeline for when consumers might be able to access autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-76544\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM-1024x711.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-19-at-9-51-50-am\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM-1024x711.png 1024w, https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM-600x416.png 600w, https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13100703\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-19-at-9.51.50-AM.png 1314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Google started its self-driving program in 2009, the company&#8217;s vehicles have accumulated 300 years of human driving experience. This year, Google simulated one billion simulated miles of autonomous driving.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/10\/17\/is-apple-losing-interest-in-building-a-self-driving-car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is spinning off its autonomous driving program into a separate company, Alphabet announced this week. The new company, called Waymo, will be headed by John Krafcik, will remain under the Google umbrella, specifically as a unit of X, Google&#8217;s moonshot division that tackles ambitious, futuristic projects. Waymo is testing self-driving cars in four states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":76532,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-76530","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/76530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/76530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/76532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76530"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=76530"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=76530"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=76530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}