Waymo has employed Tesla’s former head of auto packages, answerable for product and program Administration of all Tesla autos, simply forward of Tesla’s Robotaxi unveiling.
Daniel Ho is an aerospace engineer who went into an automotive product planning profession beginning with a 12-year stint at Ford.
In 2013, shortly after the launch of the Mannequin S, Ho joined Tesla to guide this system. He oversaw the launch of the Mannequin S Twin Motor, Autopilot 1.0 and P90 Ludicrous packages.
Ho then grew to become Tesla’s Mannequin 3 program supervisor in 2014 through the early prototyping days of this system and led all of it the best way into Tesla’s first high-volume manufacturing car.
He was additionally added the tasks of the Mannequin Y program in 2020 via 2022.
In 2022, Ho was promoted to Director of Automobile Applications and New Automobile Introductions, overseeing all program managers and reporting on to CEO Elon Musk.
He wrote about his function on LinkedIn:
Throughout my tenure we delivered and ramped Mannequin Y and Cybertruck, launched new factories in Berlin and Texas and grew total manufacturing quantity from 0.5M to 1.85M vehicles per yr whereas establishing foundational work on the longer term Robotaxi program.
Some stories said that Ho and his crew had been concerned within the huge wave of layoffs at Tesla earlier this yr.
That stated, there have been a number of stories of Elon Musk chaosly firing groups after which having to rehire them after the actual fact.
Regardless, we are actually getting a greater concept of the Ho’s scenario.
Electrek discovered a LinkedIn put up that Ho shared final week during which he introduced that he could be becoming a member of Waymo as Applications Director:
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Waymo as Applications Director. I’m honored to contribute to our mission, construct on the superior work the crew has carried out to this point and assist speed up autonomous car know-how!
On his LinkedIn profile, Ho lists his job at Tesla as ending final month and becoming a member of Waymo immediately.
Ho could be becoming a member of Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car firm, simply as Tesla is about to unveil its Robotaxi this week, a car program Ho was engaged on.
We reported earlier immediately that David Zhang, who was considered one of Ho’s prime program managers, additionally just lately confirmed leaving Tesla.
