During these days we have known the news of Chris Urmson's abandonment of Google projects and Google itself. Chris Urmson was the technical director of Google's famous autonomous car project. So the resignation becomes even more relevant.
Apparently Chris Urmson's departure is given by a project manager change that would clash with Urmson's views, this would have caused the current situation and may have serious consequences for the future of Google's autonomous car.
Google's autonomous car project is one of Google's most famous projects and it may be the project that most affects the end user together with the search engine and Android. And it is that the tests indicate that the autonomous car of Google works correctly but the absence of one of its creators could make the future of the car or its updates are truncated.
Chris Urmson's case would not be the only one within the Google Car project
Many sources claim that what happened with Chris Urmson is not unique, has found several employees of the project since the new project manager took over. However, despite this, we have only received the news of Urmson's departure for this reason. Employees who leave Google can be counted in the dozens, but in many cases it does not mean the end of a project or the unemployment of a worker but the start of new projects that are created in parallel or around the Google product. In this case we know that several employees who left Google and who were in the Google car project have created a startup that would be building an autonomous truck, something that would not stop being interesting.
At the moment Chris Urmson's nearest future is to enjoy the summer And the future of the Google car? What do you think will happen to the Google car?