Google has brought its autonomous car manufacturing division under Alphabet.
Google has taken an initiative to dominate the automotive industry. The search engine company aims to make its driverless automobiles unit, which would rent out cars, a standalone enterprise under the umbrella of Alphabet in 2016, an individual addressed on the policy of the corporation.
The driverless cars of the Californian company have been able to log more than 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) on public roads, mostly around Austin, Texas and San Francisco, making these cities sound areas for introduction of the facility, acknowledges an unknown person because of the plans’ privacy. The fleets – which would include a number of small and large automobiles – can be used first in exclusive areas such as corporate office parks or military bases and college campuses.
The competition to manufacture a driverless automobile fleet intensified since February when Bloomberg shared a report that the company determines to compete against Uber, most probably in combination with its autonomous vehicle-manufacturing venture. The app-based ride sharing company is working on its own driverless capacities, whereas automotive organizations are employing semi- automatic technologies and carrying out experimentation with so-called disseminated mobility.
By threatening pioneers of app-based ride sharing enterprises, Lyft and Uber, along with conventional cabs, the organization is clarifying yet the means by which it aims to earn money from driverless automotive systems. Spokeswomen of Google, Gina Scigliano, refused to comment.
While polls have shown one-third of the American customers like to purchase driverless vehicles, others are skittish as they worry that they would lose control, stated Thilo Koslowski, an official at Gartner. “These potential ride-for-hire services could allow consumers to experience the technology and embrace it in a bigger way. That would help not just Google but the entire industry.”
In August, Google restructured itself into a multinational known as Alphabet. The corporation intends to sell many of its modern technology divisions into standalone corporations under the umbrella of Alphabet, including its robotics unit, Google Capital Investment firms, Google Ventures, intelligence thermostats and smoke alarms manufacturer ‘Nest’, and its medical research organization ‘Verily’.
In September, Google X was able to hire automotive industry veteran, John Krafcik, as the CEO of its vehicles venture. At that time, John used to work as the online automobile shopping service’s president. He did earlier worked as Hyundai Motors Company’s senior sales executive and Ford’s truck engineer. He has not responded to an emailed request for sharing his views and comments.
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