WASHINGTON: The pinnacle of Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit Waymo stated on Friday he was stepping down as chief government and would get replaced by a pair of executives.
John Krafcik, a long-time auto trade government who has headed Waymo for greater than 5 years, will keep on as an advisor, the corporate stated. “This can be a alternative John has made after an extended and profitable profession within the automotive trade,” Waymo stated in a press release.
Dmitri Dolgov, one of many founders of the Google self-driving automotive mission and Tekedra Mawakana, who was Waymo’s chief working officer and has labored at numerous tech companies, will function co-CEOs, the corporate stated.
“We’re dedicated to working alongside you to construct, deploy, and commercialize the Waymo Driver,” the co-CEOs stated within the assertion.
Waymo, which was fashioned in 2009 as a mission inside Alphabet’s Google unit, is broadly thought of the chief in growing self-driving know-how. However Waymo remains to be years away from constructing large-scale companies, whereas their rival Tesla Inc has been promoting its semi-automated driving system.
