NATION: In the race for driverless vehicles, auto and tech worlds collide

Google had all of Silicon Valley to choose from when deciding on a leader for its ambitious self-driving-car division. Instead, the tech behemoth hired an auto industry lifer: John Krafcik, a former head of Hyundai's American brand who got his start as an engineer working on the Ford Explorer.

The announcement on Monday came a week after Toyota said that it, too, had looked outside its industry for its next big name. This month, the carmaker said it had tapped the military's chief robotics engineer, Gill Pratt, to lead a $50 million push into not just driverless cars but also artificial intelligence, through investments into tech research labs.

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