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Recode: Google Isn't Building A Self-Driving Car, It's Building The Driver
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 11:48am | 288Anyone who says that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) and its Google unit are building a self-driving car is technically wrong. In an interview with Recode, Google's head of self-driving technology Dmitri Dolgov suggested the company is taking its ambitions one step further and is building a...
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Alphabet Exec Steps Down From Uber's Board, Cites Conflict Of Interest
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 11:57am | 336David Drummond, the chief legal officer for Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), also served as a member of Uber's board of directors — until this week, that is. In a somewhat complicated relationship between the two companies, Drummond was appointed to Uber's board after Alphabet's...
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Google And Ford To Jointly Develop Self-Driving Cars
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 10:00am | 188Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s Google and Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) will team up and jointly develop self-driving vehicles, according to a report by Yahoo Autos. The partnership is expected to be announced by Ford at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The partnership appears to...
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Google Exec Hints At Potential Partnerships; Auto Supplier Stocks Respond
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 4:40pm | 503Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Chris Urmson spoke on Wednesday at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit. Here are the highlights of his discussion on self-driving cars. By 2013, Google developed a system that was considered to be robust enough to have 140 Google...