Ford will build Google self-driving cars

Ford and Google are teaming up to build self-driving cars. Google plans to use their technology combined with Ford’s auto manufacturing skills to build cars for a self-driving ride sharing service. Nothing official has been said yet, but Ford will announce the partnership at CES 2016 this January.

This could not of been any better for Ford. They don’t have any self-driving cars, and only plan to start testing some on the roads this month. However, Google has been leading the way in this area with 53 test vehicles in California and Texas, and over 1.3 million miles with them. This obviously benefits Google as well since they no longer have to set up factories, order parts, or anything to do with making the cars themselves.

Also, the partnership technically is between Google and Ford, however, Ford will list it under a different name. This will be used as a legal separation from Ford in case something goes wrong, AKA, can’t sue Ford if one crashes in to you.

As I mentioned earlier, Google plans to use the cars for a ride-sharing program similar to Uber. This won’t happen right away, but that is the end goal. I also find it funny that Google invested around 250 million into Uber and will now be using their profits to destroy Uber with their own service.

Source: Yahoo

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