Here's what Waymo's new leadership means for self-driving cars
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Last week, Waymo CEO John Krafcik, a veteran of the automotive industry, stepped down and ceded his position to Dmitry Dolgov, an artificial intelligence veteran, and Tekedra Mawakana, a seasoned lawyer with longtime experience in tech policy. The new faces of Waymo, which is one of the leading self-driving car companies, says a lot about the future of the driverless car industry. Until a few years ago, with the growing hype surrounding deep learning, the general belief was that self-driving cars were just around the corner. And getting to production-ready driverless cars was just a matter of collecting enough on-road data and training the right deep learning models.
Here's what Waymo's new leadership means for self-driving cars
Here's what Waymo's new leadership means for…
Here's what Waymo's new leadership means for self-driving cars
Last week, Waymo CEO John Krafcik, a veteran of the automotive industry, stepped down and ceded his position to Dmitry Dolgov, an artificial intelligence veteran, and Tekedra Mawakana, a seasoned lawyer with longtime experience in tech policy. The new faces of Waymo, which is one of the leading self-driving car companies, says a lot about the future of the driverless car industry. Until a few years ago, with the growing hype surrounding deep learning, the general belief was that self-driving cars were just around the corner. And getting to production-ready driverless cars was just a matter of collecting enough on-road data and training the right deep learning models.