This year, Google’s driverless car project lost a number of senior executives and technical talents one after another. Among them, the departure of Chris Urmson, the CTO, had the greatest impact on this project, but Google’s in less than a month’s time. Already found a replacement for Omega.
According to foreign media reports, Google has announced the news that Shaun Stewart, an ABB online short-term website's Airbnb executive, is about to join. Stewart will make up for the departure of Ommon as a new leader of the driverless car project.
Stuart’s resume is very rich. He used to be the CEO of Jetsetter, a luxury travel website. However, the site was subsequently acquired by tourism consultants and the booking website TripAdvisor. After this, Stuart has been responsible for short-term rental of houses for Airbnb. Global head of business. Although Stuart did not work in the driverless area, analysts believe that his joining will promote the commercialization of Google’s driverless car project.
In the future, Stuart will report directly to John Krafcik, the head of U.S. company of the former Hyundai Motor Company and current CEO of Google’s driverless car project.
At present, Google has developed unmanned technology for seven years, and nearly 60 unmanned cars have been tested on the road, and the mileage has reached 1.8 million miles (about 2.9 million kilometers). According to Ommerson’s previous forecast, Google’s driverless cars will be put into production in 2020.
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