YooJung Ahn is not a car designer.
Until she joined the Google self-driving car project in 2012, Ahn was designing consumer devices that were more likely to fit into a person's hands, not products a person could actually sit inside—let alone ride around in.
It would be this lack of traditional automotive experience that Ahn says gave her—and the small team she has led since 2013—the freedom necessary to develop a Google moonshot that is now within reach: a self-driving car with no steering wheel or pedals that could shuttle a person from point A to B with a touch of a button.
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