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Google's driver-less car project now has a CEO

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Google has hired automotive veteran John Krafcik, making him the first CEO of the company's self-driving car project. Currently the president of TrueCar - a third-party car pricing information service, Krafcik will be assuming his new position later this month.<br />
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"This is a great opportunity to help Google develop the enormous potential of self-driving cars,” said Krafcik, who has also been the CEO of Hyundai North America. “This technology can save thousands of lives, give millions of people greater mobility, and free us from a lot of the things we find frustrating about driving today. I can’t wait to get started."<br />
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Chris Urmson, who has been leading the project since its inception in 2009, will continue his work as the technical head. Also, as of now, the project remains within the Google X lab. “Self-driving car project is not becoming an Alphabet company at this stage, though it’s certainly a good candidate to become one at some point in the future,” Google said.<br />
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If you aren't already aware, Alphabet is a newly-announced public holding company that will include all of Google's current products. Each company under Alphabet will have its own CEO, Google said at the time of announcement.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Google has been working on self driving cars for more than four years. The tech giant is now announcing that it will begin testing these self driving cars on public roads in California starting this summer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Google unveiled the self driving car prototype without steering wheel and brake last year in May. The company said that the prototype vehicles will have safety drivers present and will have a capped speed of 25mph. The prototypes will be running the same software as used by Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h fleet. Google said its fleet has logged nearly a million miles of cumulative driving within its test facilities and that the program has ramped up to around 10,000 miles per week.</span><br />
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“We’re looking forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with the vehicles, and to uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle—e.g., where it should stop if it can’t stop at its exact destination due to construction or congestion. In the coming years, we’d like to run small pilot programs with our prototypes to learn what people would like to do with vehicles like this.”</blockquote>
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