These forecasts are starting to shape up, as Google is said to be in talks with Ford Motor for the American automaker to build autonomous cars for the search company. Insiders claim that the two companies have reached a long-term deal and that an official announcement could be made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January.
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While the deal remains unconfirmed at the moment, its exact details are also unclear.
The joint-venture would be legally separate from Ford to protect it from liability issues, Yahoo says. The EconoTimes content received through this service is the intellectual property of EconoTimes or its third party suppliers.
Neither Ford nor Google have commented on the speculation.
While Google declined to comment, the spokesman of Ford, Alan Hall stated that the discussions are kept private owing to competitive reasons.
The companies have been linked to one another in different ways as Google’s head of the self-driving auto project, John Krafcik, worked with Ford for nearly 14 years and several other ex-Ford employees work in the unit as well. With this reported partnership, Google will save the huge costs of building a manufacturing infrastructure for their own self-driving cars, something they’ve been looking to avoid for a while. The deal could also be non-exclusive, meaning Google could also negotiate more deals with other auto makers.
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What do you get when you cross Google’s software with Ford’s assembly-line expertise? Mark Fields, the CEO of Ford, has also said that the company considers itself a “mobility company”, hinting that the company has been planning this kind of partnership for a while.
