Google's self-driving car project will become an independent company within Alphabet Inc. called "Waymo".
From the announcement post on Medium:
Today, we're taking our next big step by becoming Waymo, a new Alphabet business. Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. We're a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.
[...] Waymo may be a new company, but we're building on advanced self-driving technology developed over many years at Google. On October 20, 2015, we completed the world's first fully-self driven car ride. Steve Mahan rode alone in one of our prototype vehicles, cruising through Austin's suburbs. Steve is legally blind, so our sensors and software were his chauffeur. His route reflected the way millions of people could use a self-driving car in everyday life: riding from a park to a doctor's office and through typical neighborhoods. This ride was possible because our cars can now handle the most difficult driving tasks, such as detecting and responding to emergency vehicles, mastering multi-lane four-way stops, and anticipating what unpredictable humans will do on the road. We've honed these skills over 2 million miles of real-world driving, and in the last year alone we've completed one billion miles of testing in simulation.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:25AM
Couldn't they have figured out a better name? Even Way.ly or waymo.io sound better than this!
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:43AM
I can think of some names that are WayMo better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:33PM
Sounds like the name of a fat farm.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:35PM
I would have picked: KnowGo!
(think about the pronounciation of that)
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:10PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:58PM
They must have been watching that one episode of Adventure Time.