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Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Google asks Detroit for help to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020


Google has begun talks with major automakers in order to accelerate the goal of bringing self-driving cars to market by 2020. Chris Urmson, the director of Google's self-driving car project, told Reuters that the company has spoken with General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Daimler, and Volkswagen.


"For us to jump in and say that we can do this better, that's arrogant"


The company's self-driving prototypes have been built by Roush so far, but Urmson said that Google doesn't expect those to be a yardstick for what production models might be like. "For us to jump in and say that we can do this better, that's arrogant," he told Reuters. He also said that Google is still split on whether it will develop its own line of self-driving cars or if it...


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