Ford’s electric Focus was first announced this time last year — and now it’s slowly going in to production. But Google has its hands on some of the first vehicles to roll off the line. Just what are they doing with them?
There seem to be two options. One’s very exciting. One’s rather dull.
With any luck, this might be a tie-in with Google’s research into driverless cars. Google has been working on that project for years, but a recent expose of Google’s ultra-secret X-Lab suggested that the search giant was keen to put the cars into production. It could be that Google is attempting to do that in collaboration with Ford.
Of course, they could just be updating the fleet of cars they use to create Street View. Maybe their previous green solution — a Street View bicycle, kitted out with camera equipment — is just too slow? [Autoblog]
David B
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 2:38 PMOr duller again….maybe they purchased some as fleet cars…..why is my tech loving brain so pessimistic lately!?
Deshan
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 7:15 AMperhaps apple bought a fleet of cars…a marque greater than ford (not all that hard), so google got their own fleet and will pretty soon have all fandroids programmed to believe they were first. just like with mobile os.
apple > android. always and forever.
MD
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 8:59 PMN0 Need to be negative…..
Fruit belongs in a fruit bowl, Life inside the bowl looks nice, but its not real.
Where are all the autonomous Apple cars??
(Looking for them down the road)
DJ
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11:21 PMOr perhaps they are just for employees to borrow like the mitsubishi electric cars they have at the australian office.