The Fiat will supply 100 Chrysler Pacifica vans and provide engineers to help integrate the technology and the companies which have described the deal as the most advanced partnership to date between Silicon Valley and a traditional carmaker.
John Krafcik the Google's head of self-driving cars has stated that the opportunity to work closely with [Fiat] engineers will accelerate their efforts to develop a fully self-driving car that will make our roads safer. Google has said that it believes driverless cars could be ready to goes on sale by 2020.
Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book has told that they can be a box-on-wheels and can move more humans around minivans will fit into the transportation fleets easily. Google will own the Fiat cars and both companies will be free to work with other companies to develop driverless technology.
The announcement of the partnership has come a week after Astro Teller, the head of 'Moon Shots' at Google has said the driverless cars project may soon move from under the umbrella of the Google X division that focuses on futuristic innovations and projects and the deal could propel Fiat to the head of the self-driving pack and position it to become a major manufacture for Google.
