Pave the Waymo forward: Google’s self-driving car now its own company

‘Waymo, the new company spinning off under Google’s umbrella, will take the reins of the self-driving car technology the Silicon Valley giant has been developing for seven years.
“Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility,” Google said on a webpage of its self-driving car project. Waymo’s mission, it says, is “to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.”
What has now become an independent company started as a self-driving car project at the secretive research unit Google X in 2009. Now, Waymo is taking on both development and the business itself. Along with Google, it is now within Alphabet Inc., a company created by Google founders in October 2015.’
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