Waymo - wikipedia Waymo Waymo LLC Type Subsidiary Industry Autonomous cars Predecessor Google Self - Driving Car Project Founded 2009 ; 9 years ago ( 2009 ) ( as the Google Self - Driving Car Project ) December 13, 2016 ; 22 months ago ( 2016 - 12 - 13 ) ( as Waymo ) Headquarters Mountain View, California, United States Key people John Krafcik ( CEO ) Ron Medford ( Director of Safety ) Dmitri Dolgov ( CTO, VP Engineering ) Parent Google, Inc ( 2009 -- 2016 ) Alphabet, Inc. ( 2016 -- present ) Website waymo.com Waymo Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid undergoing testing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Waymo is a self - driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Waymo originated as a project of Google before it became a stand alone subsidiary in December 2016. Waymo is currently running a trial of an autonomous ride - hailing business in Phoenix, Arizona. The company has announced that the service will be available for public use by the end of 2018. Contents 1 History 2 Technology 3 Road testing 3.1 Crashes 3.2 Limitations 4 Commercialization 5 Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al. 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links History See also : History of autonomous cars Google 's development of self - driving technology began in 2009 at the company 's secretive X lab run by co-founder Sergey Brin. The project was originally led by Sebastian Thrun, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View. Thrun 's team at Stanford created the robotic vehicle Stanley, which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its US $2 million prize from the United States Department of Defense. The team developing the system consisted of 15 engineers working for Google, including Chris Urmson, Dmitri Dolgov, Mike Montemerlo, and Anthony Levandowski who had worked on the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges. A Waymo self - driving car Starting in 2010, lawmakers in various states expressed concerns over how to regulate the emerging technology. Nevada passed a law in June 2011 concerning the operation of autonomous cars in Nevada, which went into effect on March 1, 2012. A Toyota Prius modified with Google 's experimental driverless technology was licensed by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles ( DMV ) in May 2012. This was the first license issue in the United States for a self - driven car. In late May 2014, Google revealed a new prototype of its driverless car, which had no steering wheel, gas pedal, or brake pedal, being 100 % autonomous, and unveiled a fully functioning prototype in December of that year that they planned to test on San Francisco Bay Area roads beginning in 2015. Called the Firefly, the car was intended to serve as a platform for experimentation and learning, not mass production. In 2015, Google provided `` the world 's first fully driverless ride on public roads '' to a legally blind friend of principal engineer Nathaniel Fairfield. The ride was taken by Steve Mahan, former CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, in Austin, Texas. It was the first driverless ride that was on a public road and was not accompanied by a test driver or police escort. The car had no steering wheel or floor pedals. In December 2016, the unit was renamed Waymo, and made into its own separate division in Alphabet. The name Waymo is derived from its mission, `` a new way forward in mobility ''. Waymo moved to further test its cars on public roads after becoming its own subsidiary. In 2017, Waymo sued Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets. A court filing in lawsuit revealed Google has spent over $1.1 billion on the project between 2009 and 2015, to be compared with the $1 billion acquisition of Cruise Automation by General Motors in March 2016, a similar investment by Ford in a joint venture with Argo AI in February 2017, or the $680 million for Otto 's acquisition by Uber in August 2016. Waymo and Uber settled in February 2018, with Uber granting Waymo $245 million worth of Uber stock. Waymo began testing autonomous minivans without a safety driver on public roads in Chandler, Arizona, in October 2017. The company announced in January 2018 that it would begin its ride - hailing services in the Phoenix, Arizona, area later in the year. Technology A self - driving car with the previous Google branding A Lexus RX450h retrofitted by Google for its self - driving car project In 2017, Waymo unveiled new sensors and chips that are less expensive to manufacture, cameras that improve visibility, and wipers to clear the lidar system. Waymo manufactures a suite of self - driving hardware developed in - house. These sensors and hardware -- enhanced vision system, improved radar, and laser - based lidar -- reduce Waymo 's dependence on suppliers. The in - house production system allows Waymo to efficiently integrate its technology to the hardware. In the beginning of the self - driving car program, the company spent $75,000 for each lidar system from Velodyne. As of 2017, that cost was down approximately 90 percent, due to Waymo designing its own version of lidar. Waymo officials said the cars the company uses are built for full autonomy with sensors that give 360 degree views and lasers that detect objects up to 300 meters away. Short - range lasers detect and focus on objects near the vehicle, while radar is used to see around vehicles and track objects in motion. The interior of these cars include buttons for riders to control certain functions : `` Help '', `` Lock '', `` Pull over '', and `` Start ride ''. Waymo engineers have also created a program called Carcraft, a virtual world where Waymo can simulate driving conditions. The simulator is named after the video game World of Warcraft. With Carcraft, 25,000 virtual self - driving cars navigate through models of Austin, Texas, Mountain View, California, Phoenix, Arizona, and other cities. As of 2018, Waymo has driven more than 5 billion miles in the virtual world. Waymo has created partnerships with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Lyft, AutoNation, Avis, Intel, and Jaguar Land Rover. The Waymo project team has equipped various types of cars with the self - driving equipment, including the Toyota Prius, Audi TT, Fiat Chrysler Pacifica and Lexus RX450h. Google also developed their own custom vehicle, about 100 of which were assembled by Roush Enterprises with equipment from Bosch, ZF Lenksysteme, LG, and Continental. In May 2016, Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced an order of 100 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans to test the self - driving technology. Waymo ordered an additional 500 Pacifica hybrids in 2017 and in late May 2018, Alphabet announced plans to add up to 62,000 Pacifica Hybrid minivans to the fleet. In March 2018, Jaguar Land Rover announced that Waymo had ordered up to 20,000 of its planned electric I - Pace cars, at an estimated cost more than $1 billion. Jaguar is to deliver the first I - Pace prototype later in the year, and the cars are to become part of Waymo 's ride - hailing service in 2020. Waymo partners with Intel to use Intel technologies, such as processors, inside Waymo vehicles. Its deals with Avis and AutoNation are for vehicle maintenance. With Lyft, Waymo is partnering on pilot projects and product development. Road testing A Toyota Prius modified to operate as a Google driverless car, navigating a test course As of 2018, Waymo had tested its system in six states and 25 cities across the U.S over a span of more than 9 years. Among the first places Google began testing its self - driving cars in 2009 was San Francisco Bay Area. Google 's vehicles have traversed San Francisco 's Lombard Street, famed for its steep hairpin turns, and through city traffic. The vehicles have driven over the Golden Gate Bridge and around Lake Tahoe. The system drives at the speed limit it has stored on its maps and maintains its distance from other vehicles using its system of sensors. It has since expanded its areas of testing. In August 2012, the team announced that they had completed over 300,000 autonomous - driving miles ( 500,000 km ) accident - free, typically having about a dozen cars on the road at any given time. Four U.S. states had passed laws permitting autonomous cars as of December 2013 : Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan. A law proposed in Texas would establish criteria for allowing `` autonomous motor vehicles ''. In April 2014, the team announced that their vehicles had logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles ( 1.1 million km ). In June 2015, the team announced that their vehicles had driven over 1,000,000 mi ( 1,600,000 km ), stating that this was `` the equivalent of 75 years of typical U.S. adult driving '', and that in the process they had encountered 200,000 stop signs, 600,000 traffic lights, and 180 million other vehicles. Google also announced its prototype vehicles were being road tested in Mountain View, California. During testing, the prototypes ' speed did not exceed 25 mph ( 40 km / h ) and had safety drivers aboard the entire time. As a consequence, one of the vehicles was stopped by police for impeding traffic flow. In 2015, Google expanded its road - testing to Texas, where regulations did not prohibit cars without pedals and a steering wheel. Bills were introduced by interested parties to similarly change the legislation in California. Google took its first driverless ride on public roads in October 2015, when Mahan took a 10 - minute solo ride around Austin in a Google `` pod car '' with no steering wheel or pedals. In 2016, the company expanded its road testing to the dry Phoenix, Arizona, area and Kirkland, Washington, which has a wet climate. In May 2016, the company opened a 53,000 square foot self - driving technology development center in Novi, Michigan. As of June 2016, Google had test driven their fleet of vehicles, in autonomous mode, a total of 1,725,911 mi ( 2,777,585 km ). In August 2016 alone, their cars traveled a `` total of 170,000 miles ; of those, 126,000 miles were driven autonomously ( i.e., the car was fully in control ) ''. Beginning of 2017, Waymo reported to California DMV a total of 636,868 miles covered by the fleet in autonomous mode, and the associated 124 disengagements, for the period from December 1, 2015 through November 30, 2016. In November 2017, Waymo altered its Arizona testing by removing safety drivers in the driver position from their autonomous Chrysler Pacificas. The cars were geofenced within a 100 square miles surrounding Chandler, Arizona. Waymo 's early rider program members were the first to take rides using the new technology. Waymo began testing its level 4 autonomous cars in Arizona for several reasons : good weather, simple roads, and the state not requiring that self - driving cars have any special permissions. Users hail vehicles through a Waymo app and an onboard support system can connect them to a Waymo agent at any time. In 2017, Waymo began weather testing in Michigan. Also in 2017, Waymo unveiled its test facility, Castle, on 91 acres in Central Valley, California. Castle, a former air base, has served as the project 's training course since 2012. According to a Waymo report, as of March 2018 Waymo 's self - driving technology had driven more than 5 million miles on public roads and more than 5 billion miles via simulation. Waymo 's 25,000 virtual self - driving cars travel 8 million miles per day. In March 2018, Waymo announced its plans to build additional real - world self - driving experiments with the company 's self - driving trucks delivering for sister company Google 's data centers located in Atlanta, Georgia. As of 12 September 2018, Waymo was waiting on permits to test the cars in California, hoping to test in Los Altos, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale. Crashes In June 2015, Google confirmed that there had been 12 collisions as of that time, eight of which involved being rear - ended by another driver at a stop sign or traffic light, two in which the vehicle was side - swiped by another driver, one of which involved another driver rolling through a stop sign, and one where a Google employee was manually driving the car. As of July 2015, Google 's 23 self - driving cars have been involved in 14 minor collisions on public roads, but Google maintains that, in all cases other than the February 2016 incident, the vehicle itself was not at fault because the cars were either being manually driven or the driver of another vehicle was at fault. On February 14, 2016 while creeping forward to a stoplight, a Google self - driving car attempted to avoid sandbags blocking its path. During the maneuver it struck the side of a bus. Google addressed the crash, saying `` In this case, we clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car had n't moved there would n't have been a collision ''. Some incomplete video footage of the crash is available. Google characterized the crash as a misunderstanding and a learning experience. The company also stated `` This type of misunderstanding happens between human drivers on the road every day ''. Google initially maintained monthly reports that include any traffic incidents that their self - driving cars have been involved in. Waymo now publishes its own safety reports. Waymo and other companies are required by the California DMV to report the number of incidents during testing where the human driver took control for safety reasons. Some of these incidents were not reported by Google when simulations indicate the car would have coped on its own. There is some controversy concerning this distinction between driver - initiated disengagements that Google reports and those that it does not report. Limitations Waymo operates in some of its testing markets, such as Chandler, Arizona, at level 4 autonomy with no one sitting behind the steering wheel, sharing roadways with other drivers and pedestrians. However, more testing is needed. Waymo 's earlier testing has focused on areas without harsh weather, extreme density or complicated road systems, but it has moved on to test under new conditions. As a result, Waymo has begun testing in areas with harsher conditions, such as its winter testing in Michigan. In 2014, a critic wrote in the MIT Technology Review that unmapped stopped lights would cause problems with Waymo 's technology and the self - driving technology could not detect potholes. Additionally, the lidar technology can not spot some potholes or discern when humans, such as a police officer, are signaling the car to stop, the critic wrote. Waymo has worked improved how its technology responds in construction zones. Commercialization In 2012, Brin stated that Google Self - Driving cars would be available for the general public in 2017, and in 2014 this schedule was updated by project director Chris Urmson to indicate a possible release from 2017 to 2020. In August 2013, news reports surfaced about Robo - Taxi, a proposed driverless vehicle taxicab service from Google. These reports re-appeared again in early 2014, following the granting of a patent to Google for an advertising fee funded transportation service which included autonomous vehicles as a method of transport. Google consultant Larry Burns says self - driving, taxi - like vehicles `` should be viewed as a new form of public transportation ''. In a December 2016 blog post, Waymo CEO John Krafcik stated : `` We can see our technology being useful in personal vehicles, ridesharing, logistics, or solving last mile problems for public transport '' but also that `` Our next step as Waymo will be to let people use our vehicles to do everyday things like run errands, commute to work, or get safely home after a night on the town ''. Temporary use of vehicles is known as Transportation as a Service ( TaaS ). In April 2017, Waymo launched an early rider program in Phoenix, Arizona, which signed up 400 users to try out a test edition of Waymo 's transportation service. Over the next year, 400 riders used the Waymo service, providing feedback. In May 2018, Waymo announced that it plans to allow everyone in Phoenix to request a driverless ride before the end of year. Waymo highlighted four specific business uses for its autonomous tech in 2017 : Ridesharing, users can hail cars equipped with Waymo technology via transportation network company apps ; trucking and logistics ; urban last - mile solutions for public transportation ; and passenger cars. Waymo is also considering licensing autonomous technology to vehicle manufacturers. In 2018, Waymo launched a pilot program with Google to use autonomous trucks to move freight to its sister company 's Atlanta - area data centers. Using the same sensors and software as Waymo 's other autonomous fleet, Class 8 tractor trailers began testing Waymo 's self - driving technology in California and Arizona in 2017. In May 2018, Waymo established a subsidiary, Huimo Business Consulting, in Shanghai. Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc et al In February 2017, Waymo sued Uber and its subsidiary self - driving trucking company, Otto, for allegedly stealing Waymo 's trade secrets and infringing upon its patents. The company claimed that three ex-Google employees including Anthony Levandowski stole trade secrets and joined Uber. The infringement is related to Waymo 's proprietary lidar technology, which could measure the distances between objects using laser and create their three dimensional representations. Google accused Uber of colluding with Levandowski to obtain information about it and other technologies in its driverless car project. The former Google engineer downloaded 9 gigabytes of data that included over a hundred trade secrets ; eight of those were at stake during the trial. The trial began on February 5, 2018, and was dismissed on February 9, as a settlement was announced with Uber giving Waymo the equivalent of $244 million in Uber equity and agreeing to ensure Uber does not infringe Waymo 's intellectual property. 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Question: when did google make the self driving car
Answer: 2009