Google names ex-Hyundai exec head of its self-driving car operations
Google has appointed John Krafcik, a former Hyundai exec and more recently president of auto sales website Truecar, to run its self-driving car operations.
The move is a significant one as it signals that Google wants to move its self-driving cars out of the lab, through the production line and onto the sales lot. Its recent pronouncements have suggested no timeline for such a move.
Krafcik has decades of automotive industry experience, having worked in product development at Ford Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor America before rising to the role of president and CEO of Hyundai's U.S. operations in 2008, where he focused on increasing sales.
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