Wired has a thorough article about Google’s new self driving car company, Waymo.
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/google-se … car-waymo/
Technically Waymo is a company under the Alphabet umbrella. I’m hoping this means we will start hearing about more commercial applications of the technology. They were way ahead of everyone else, but as I’ve often seen in technology, the second or third place company can quickly leapfrog the frontrunner, often by stealing the ideas.