Alphabet, however, does not want to relinquish too much equity in the business, formerly known as "Project Chauffeur," per The Information's reporting.
Over a six-year period Google's spending for its "Project Chauffeur" totaled $1.1 billion, according to tech site IEEE Spectrum, which found the figure in a close review of a court filing.
There are only a few minutes left in court, but so far only Waymo has asked questions to Dolgov about his background working at Project Chauffeur, which eventually became Waymo.
Once a carriage with a roof projecting over the chauffeur's seat, it came to mean a long car carrying a V.I.P.
The only other thing Brin has been rumored to be directly involved in recently beyond Chauffeur are Google's social projects.
For instance, X's self-driving car project, known internally as Chauffeur, recently hired a chief executive and is poised to become a stand-alone company.
When she suddenly died (or, some say, ran off with the chauffeur), he halted construction and abandoned the project.
The only project he is working on that he would name is "Chauffeur", the name of Google's now well-publicized autonomous car project.
In the late 1980s he was approached by producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck, whose project about a crotchety spinster in Atlanta and her black chauffeur had been turned down by every major American studio.
Then, the company sought to project Bentley's sporty, owner-driver mystique alongside the staid, chauffeur-driven aura of the Rolls.
