Recently automaker Fiat Chrysler management has stated that with the support of Google experts will create about 100 minivans Chrysler Pacifica with the function of the autopilot and hybrid can be recharged from the mains. They will be used for testing the respective technical solutions.
Automaker General Director Sergio Marchionne reported that Google has recently experienced an autopilot system in action, and admitted that it had made immeasurably more favorable impression than the earlier version. According to him, it has good commercial prospects of the creation of a city truck with autopilot, but we should not forget about the consumer sector. Fiat Chrysler will not be a simple manufacturer of platform on which Google will run in its own technology: the partnership must be of equal value, and the automaker engineers will be actively involved in the development process.
Marchionne said that the automotive industry needs to consolidate the efforts to create an autopilot: it makes little sense to spend money on creating multiple variations of the same technology.