The google self-driving car project is losing Chris Urmson, who served as the unit's CTO and lead the technical resource after growing the company from carnagie Mellon. The "back-bone" of this project has a compelling status amongst roboticist in the field of autonomity, said in a post announcing his departure from the project that he was "ready for a fresh challenge", but little did he point out what he was doing.
Urmson isn't the only member of the team to have departed recently, in fact, the New York Times reports that two other engineers: Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, who both worked on machine vision technology, also left, adding that their aim was to build a startup, but also not disclosing the details.
He described being a part of the project" a tremendous privilege and honor," and added he has "every confidence act the mission" of building a fully self-driving car at Google is in "capable hands."
His action occured just a day after the unit's CEO John Krafcik spoke to Bloomberg about the project. Krafcik spoke about the team's makeup in his interview, saying it contained "a surprising number of car geeks" and that the group included " a lot of hard-core software-coding types as well."
The CEO joined Google in September 2015 from Hyundai, where he was ceo and president of the company's U.S operation.
- Abdulsamad Aliyu.
Via Recode.
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