General Motors open to working with Google on self-driving car technology

Urmson is expected to announce his company's plans to seek partnerships within the auto industry.
             
Car makers including GM are racing to develop features that will make cars safer to drive. The longer-term vision includes cars that will largely drive themselves.

Lauckner said any automaker teaming up with Google would need to establish how the relationship would work.
             
"You have to figure out how would something like that actually work," he said, adding, "Would it be something where it would be an opportunity to work together in a joint development agreement?"

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Google self-driving car prototype ready to try road

"We're going to be spending the holidays zipping around our test track, and we hope to see you on the streets of Northern California in the new year," the Internet titan's  autonomous car team said on Monday in a post at Google+ social network.

The prototype is a manifestation of plans that California-based Google revealed in May to build its own autonomous car minus typical features such as steering wheels.

"They won't have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal... because they don't need them. Our software and sensors do all the work," Google's Chris Urmson said in a blog post in May.

Technical specifics about the prototype were not disclosed on Monday.

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