it is just today that Google has attempted to explore the universe of autonomous vehicles. The project has been touched since 2009. The giant of area of technology have probably discovered, as the niche becomes more close to reality, is that business is too complex, as with any operation that involves the production of a car.
so Much so that the development of a car own was virtually abandoned, very much on account of the reflections that the first accident involving a stand-alone Google has forced their executives to do so.
If you make a standalone from scratch is out of the question, Google still aims to exploit the potential of the market, now as a developer of technologies to be embedded in models of other manufacturers.
Very pleased, Waymo
To this the company announced this week the creation of a new division, independent named Waymo — acronym of the English expression “the new WAY forward in MObility” (a new path in mobility, in free translation).
The subsidiary, which will be under the umbrella of the arm array of the company, the Alphabet, want to “make the transport of people and objects, is secure and easy.”
In other words, it will be show that “autonomous cars can be used to do something everyday, safely and in a way that people may consider pleasurable — this is one of the locks more difficult to break for people to accept the technology.
To demonstrate this, the company has led to the presentation of Steve Mahan, a visually impaired Austin (Texas), and has said that it is using one of their vehicles to help you in your daily transportation.
“we Believe that this technology can reshape some of the ten trillion miles that the motor vehicles they travel around the world each year,” said John Krafcik, the former head of the Hyundai and was appointed CEO of Waymo.
Sell the technology, not cars
Krafcik was not the only executive taken another company to touch the project. Shaun Stewart, a former Trip Advisor and airbnb, is another shows that the current focus is already to try to make the project commercially.
“We see our technology being useful in personal vehicles, ride sharing, logistics or resolving problems of public transport. The driving unattended can be useful in ways that the world still can not imagine, creating new types of products, jobs and services”, followed Krafcik, explaining the large scope of action of the Wayno.
One thing was clear in the speech of the boss: the objective will not be to manufacture cars. “Already, we made it very clear that we are not an assembler. We are a company specialized in driving stand-alone. We do not want to produce cars, but to make drivers better,” he summarized.
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