Google, ford to build self driving automobiles

Google may not manufacture its own car, but will team up with Ford to build self-driving vehicles.
The two companies will announce their pairing up to make piloted cars during next month's Consumer Electronics Show, Yahoo Autos reports.

Although that report is still unverified, Chances are good that this is true, however. In November, Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said that the carmaker would need to pair with big tech companies in order to survive the coming series of revolutions facing the transportation industry.

If Google and Ford do team up, the move could signal that people inside Google realized that manufacturing a car from scratch was unfeasible — or at least far too costly. Rather than using Ford to make its own pod cars like the one pictured above. It's instead likely that Google will just utilize Ford cars for its own aspirations.

This likely won't be the only pairing Google makes. Just as it has done with smartphone manufacturers.