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Waymo ditches futuristic self-driving bubble car for … a minivan
When Google unveiled its brand new self-driving car prototype in May 2014 it looked like a shot at a new type of public transport system filled with pod-like autonomous cars. Now that utopian dream seems at an end. Waymo is killing off the specifically designed "Firefly" in favour of an adapted Chrysler van. The Alphabet-owned self-driving company shifted focus when it was taken out of Google's moonshot division, X. It moved away from building its own cars and towards creating the technology for others to build autonomous cars.