Google’s unmanned car division will become an independent company

According to Bloomberg News quoted insider sources, Google’s unmanned car division will be spun off from Google X in 2016, forming an independent subsidiary of umbrella company Alphabet.

The car is the next giant that the technology giant wants to subvert. In the recent past, people seem to have started sprinting. Apple's secret car repairing hearsay is endless. Baidu began claiming that it would take three years to realize the commercialization of unmanned vehicles. The most eye-catching Google in the world of unmanned vehicles has not stopped its R&D efforts. More than 50 unmanned vehicles have even been tested on highways in Austin and San Francisco, and the mileage has so far reached 160. Million kilometers.

Based on the accumulated experience of driving these two places, according to anonymous sources, Google plans to share bus rides in public areas such as universities and corporate campuses there. In this case, Google’s plan may pose a challenge to Uber in the future, because although Uber is leading the way in sharing cars, it is still behind in the research of unmanned vehicles. However, Google’s unprofitable business model is still unknown.

Since the establishment of the umbrella parent company Alphabet, the separation of several advanced departments into independent subsidiaries is one of its goals. A few months ago its life sciences division had departed from Google X as an Alphabet subsidiary and officially changed its name to Verily earlier this month. After the unmanned car sector became independent, the team below the big tree of Alphabet would obviously become even bigger.