Google and Ford rumored to be building autonomous cars together
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Google and Ford rumored to be building autonomous cars together
Google and automaker Ford are said to be in talks to create a new company which will focus on building autonomous cars.
Google has been working on autonomous cars for a long time and it has been a rather successful project.
According to a recent report, Google's autonomous cars have been involved in only 11 accidents in 1.7 million miles driven. Impressively, none were fatal and none were the cars' fault.
Collaborating with Ford would make perfect sense as Ford is one of the biggest automakers in the world and have the means to build cars.
On the other hand, Ford will get Google's know-how in autonomous driving research. Google has been testing autonomous cars for years, but Ford only recently received approval to test their own autonomous driving cars on the streets of California.
We will know more about this at CES where Ford is expected to hold a news conference.
Source: The Verge
