Google’s autonomous car unit now ‘autonomous’

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Google’s self-driving car project is being shifted from its research lab X to a standalone business. This is being seen as a major step towards its endeavor to establish self-driving autonomous cars as a separate business. The process of isolating the car group had started when the company had separated its finances from January this year.

The Alphabet Inc by this decision is expecting the car group to start generating revenue of its own. The ROI would help the company to decide on the possible business models which can be developed for the car.

The people at the helm are tight-lipped about the possible business models playing their mind. It can be comprehended from what its chief Astro Teller said speaking at a conference is that the company will be increasing the number of cars in its fleet and can launch them in few selected cities with infrastructure suiting the car. The company also doesn’t seem to believe in gradually moving towards self-driving cars. It is ready for the markets and regulators to mature and then launch its car, till then it will keep mulling over what improvements in can make and possible business outcomes.

Excerpts from Astro Teller’s address at WSJDLive conference:

“The world is going to have cars that are sold to individuals and cars that are shared by individuals, and which one Alphabet does, we have our thinking on it..But right now we’re very focused on safety…Any other company that’s acting rationally will probably do the same thing, which is finding constrained ways to roll out so that we’re learning safely,..Alphabet’s cars will be fully autonomous from the start.You press a button and tell the car where you want to go,”
Source: http://telematicswire.net/googles-autonomous-car-unit-now-autonomous/

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