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Google Executive Chris Urmson Quits Self Driving Car Project
Chris Urmson, a key Executive who was behind Google's self driving car project announced that he is leaving the team. He is leaving after seven and a half years.
Alphabet Inc's Google had named Urmson as the project's Chief Technical Officer, after they hired John Krafcik, an ex-Hyundai Executive as the Chief Executive of the project.
Urmson has been the public face of Google's autonomous cars since the launch of the project. Krafcik confirmed Urmson's departure from the company via twitter. On Friday, Urmson said in a blogpost that he is ready for a fresh challenge, but was not sure what he was going to do next.
"Going to take some time and get some perspective from outside of Google," he wrote in a text message to Reuters.
Google
self-driving
car
project
spokesman,
Johnny
Luu
confirmed
Urmson's
departure
and
praised
him:
"Seven
years
ago,
the
idea
that
a
car
could
drive
itself
wasn't
much
more
than
an
idea.
Chris
has
been
a
vital
force
for
the
project,
helping
the
team
move
from
a
research
phase
to
a
point
where
this
life-saving
technology
will
soon
become
a
reality,"
Google's self driving project will become a stand alone company this year, and it has already hired its first general council. As for the cars, Google has clocked around 1.8 million miles in Texas, California, Arizona, and Washington state.
Google has also announced that it has no timetable for making self-driving vehicles available to the public.