If Silicon Valley and Detroit had a baby, it would be John Krafcik. Since September, the former Hyundai CEO has helmed Google’s Self Driving Car Project, leading a team of software engineers on a quest to upend mobility as we know it–beginning with an army of driverless marshmallow cars currently clipping around northern California at a maximum speed of 25 mph.
But though he’s leading one of the automotive industry’s most visible disruptors (the other is Tesla), Krafcik spent most of his career in traditional automotive manufacturing.
