Waymo

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo has sacked more than 200 employees in its second round of layoffs

The executive who steered the transformation of Google's self-driving car project into a separate company worth billions of dollars is stepping down after more than five years on the job.

Musk has countered recent remarks by the head of Waymo that Tesla has taken a misguided approach to develop fully autonomous cars

Regardless of regulations, all modern vehicles will become more and more autonomous

Wei Huang, 38, died March 23 when his sport utility vehicle using the driver-assistance system Autopilot collided with a highway barrier in Mountain View, California, and caught fire

The vehicles include human operators from Waymo behind the wheel, in case intervention is required

Anthony Levandowski had left Alphabet to launch his own self-driving start-up Otto