Google No plans to become an automaker
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- Google Inc. doesn't mean to become an automobile manufacturing company, the firm's managing director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland mentioned on Tuesday at the Frankfurt autoshow.
Google has named auto-industry expert John Krafcik, a former CEO of Hyundai Motors America, as leader of its own self-driving vehicle job.
Google's pet project of driverless vehicles began in 2009 with an aim to revolutionise the auto industry. The selecting of Krafcik is viewed as a signal the technology giant is beginning to consider the task as a possible and important company as time goes on.
Google's Philipp Justus, who's also the managing director for central and eastern Europe, stated the business was working on automobiles in partnership together with the automotive industry, but wasn't about to be a car manufacturer.
"That's not a thing we could do alone," Justus stated, adding that Google's associates contained automotive suppliers Bosch and ZF Friedrichshafen. "Google also doesn't mean to be a car manufacturer."
German auto makers BMW, Mercedes Benz and Audi meanwhile are snapping up applications specialists as technology companies like Google threaten to out-flank these in the race to come up with a self-driving vehicle.
Applications expertise is now a fresh battleground for car companies and technology companies as automobiles desire lines of code to link electric-car motors to batteries, speak to smart phones or activate brakes when a radar system finds an obstruction ahead.
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