“A few years ago, Waymo made the decision to start building our own self driving vision system, radar and LiDAR in house,” Waymo Chief Executive Officer John Krafcik said in a statement on LinkedIn. “This has been crucial to improving the quality of our self-driving technology, and bringing down cost. With Satish’s expertise, we’ll be able to further advance our self-driving hardware, and bring our technology to more people, more quickly.”