Google’s self driving cars have been much talked about objects for past few years, but actually inducting a car manufacturing company is new. The development of Google partnering with an established car manufacturer for the first time ever shows that future will see driverless cars really soon.
Business Insider reported that the partnership would represent Google's first success enlisting an established car-maker to adopt its technology, and comes at a time when Detroit and Silicon Valley's business interests are increasingly clashing. Google recently hired a Ford veteran to head its autonomous car group, and Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford, joined Google's board of directors in 2014. The joint venture will create a company that builds self-driving cars using Google technology. The company will be legally separate from Ford, partly to protect Ford from potential liability concerns with the new cars
Experts say it will be many years before fully self-driving cars are actually available to the general public, with a slew of technology, regulatory, and legal issues yet to be ironed out.
Google has been testing several pod shaped, self driving cars in public streets in California. However it is not the only one who is ambitious about launching self driving cars; Uber, Tesla, Nissan and Volvo are also reportedly working along same lines.
The partnership is said to be finalized in Las Vegas at Consumer Electric Show next month
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