Google’s Self-Driving Cars Set To Become An Independent Business

Google's Self-driving car business is set to become an independent entity. The experimental project "X" lab will become a separate business outside Google. Does this mean, we will see a Google self-driving car soon?

John Krafcik, CEO of Google's self-driving car division, speaking at the Nikkei Innovation Forum in Palo Alto on Wednesday, said,

"Around a year ago we announced this new Alphabet structure and the 'bet' of Alphabet is sort of a shorthand for these new entities that are forming within this new corporate structure."

Last year another Google's Project "X", was turned into a separate business entity called Verily Life Sciences. Google's experimental X lab was working on fully autonomous self-driving cars. The project was initiated about 8 years back. Recently Google is facing competition if the autonomous driving car segment from the likes of Tesla and Uber.

The Google's Self-driving car project came under a lot of scrutinies since it became a part of , Alphabet. Unlike Verily which is still a part of Alphabet, it is speculated that this project will be become completely autonomous, as reported by Forbes.

Krafcik, further added, "We are not building a car. Our focus is building a better driver, We've had a lot of discussions with a lot of different automakers on that." As reported in Financial Times.

Google is testing its Self-driving car technology in extreme conditions from damper climates of Seattle to the heat of Arizona. Google is in the stage of solving the last bit of problems and would share the technology with the world, soon.

Google's Self-driving car will give a "Level 4" autonomy which would be perfectly safe. Not so long ago, one of the Google's test car had met with an accident. Google claimed it was human error and Car was not fully autonomous.

Let's hope that by making the autonomous car segment independent, Google will bring the self-driving cars sooner in the market.