Fifteen former Google engineers,including long-time self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski, have left the company to create Otto, and a start-up based on bringing partial autonomous driving to expansive-rig trucks.
As the NYT notes,the start-up has great creds: Levandowski designed a self-driving motorcycle while still a grad student, and his first start-up was acquired by Google. Co-founder Lior Ron was previously lead engineer on Google Maps.
Otto’s arrangement differs from Google’s self-driving car project in two ways … more…
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Source: 9to5google.com