Just few weeks after Google get usall excitedabout itsimpending fleet of self-governing Chrysler minivan , the companionship ’s ego - drive Car project foretell that it ’s packing up at least part of its performance and prompt it to Detroit . Ford , hide your engineers !
In ashort poston itsSelf - drive Car web log , Google confirm that it was opening an R&D center in Novi , Michigan , about a 35 - arcminute drive from Chrysler Fiat ’s HQ in Auburn Hills :
Many of our current partners are base here , so having a local facility will help us collaborate more well and access Michigan ’s top talent in fomite development and engineering . At this 53,000 sq ft development sum , our engineers , working with local better half , will further develop and refine self - drive technology . One of the first tasks will be to fix our self - driving Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans .
Although Google has said before that it ’s not necessarily interested in making a railroad car , this hints that the party will be much more involved in the actual manufacturing cognitive operation of said minivans . to boot , the location is not too far off fromMcity , the Ann Arbor examination adroitness for autonomous vehicles .
But I think the key set phrase for this annunciation is “ access Michigan ’s top talent in fomite ontogenesis and engineering . ” While Google has been pull back passel of auto - folk out to Silicon Valley , the welfare of being in the mix is that they ’ll be able to more easily poach the saucy people living and working in Detroit . And when you depend at the ratherdismal financial outlookfor these carmaker , I can only assume they ’ll be banging down the threshold of this Novi warehouse . After all , human - driven cable car are over , and Google ’s cable car is the future .
More significantly , Google ’s propinquity to other automakers will in all likelihood moderate to more collaboration , since the Chrysler great deal is just a100 - van one - off , for now . particularly when a “ strategic partnership ” with a technical school party is the hottest affair for all carmakers to have at the minute , it ’s very bright for Google to keep its options open as it moves into town .
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