Second tweet says, “This is a great opportunity to help Google develop the enormous potential of self-driving cars”.
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Austin is the only city in which Google is testing its self-driving prototypes outside of its hometown of Mountain View, California.
“That is not something we could do alone”, Justus said, adding that Google’s partners included automotive suppliers Bosch and zf Friedrichshafen, Reuters reported. When the tech companies roll out driverless cars, they likely will be self-driving taxis for urban areas.
The story thus farGoogle unveiled its prototype electric driverless cars previous year and declared that its self-driving vehicles would be ready for mass production by 2020.
And it’s Apple and Google that are driving that conversation, even though neither one of them is doing (much) of the talking.
“What is important for us is that the brain of the auto , the operating system, is not iOS or Android or someone else but it’s our brain”, Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Daimler, the maker of Mercedes vehicles, told reporters at the auto show.
The road aheadGoogle previously stated that it won’t manufacture its own vehicles but will license the technology to automakers instead. It seems that the Google auto is incapable of making assessments of when it is necessary to sacrifice the rules in order to preserve the flow and safety of traffic in this test.
The information came following a statement from the company’s managing director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland who said that Google has no intentions in joining other companies in the vehicle industry as far as making its own fleet of cars is concerned.
Krafcik has already displayed much of the innovative future thinking that Google values.
Even without competition from Apple and Google, the carmakers are under extreme pressure to change the way they build cars. According to Sarah Hunter, head of policy at the GoogleX innovation lab, “the intention is that the passenger gets in the vehicle, says into microphone, take me to Safeway, and the auto does the entire journey”. Before you know it the streets will be bustling with self-driving cars.
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Google’s custom-built cars are designed from the ground up to be fully self-driving, using the same software as the Lexus vehicles that have driven over 1 million miles since the project started. At Hyundai, he led USA marketing and sales.
