Waymo is an autonomous car development company created by Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. in December 2016. It subsequently took over the automotive project that Google had started in 2009. The alphabet describes Waymo as "a company technology that moves itself with the mission of making it safe and easy for people and things to move. " The new company, which will be headed by automotive executive John Krafcik for a long time, is working to make auto-driving cars available to the public soon.