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On Wednesday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that it had selected Waymo, the autonomous company created in 2016, Alphabet, to bring autonomous generation to all its vehicle brands.
“FCA has selected Waymo as its unique and strategic generation spouse for fully autonomous driving generation [Level 4] across the FCA product portfolio,” the automaker said in a Blog post for Waymo.
“We have already begun working in combination to design long-lasting FCA products for the movement of other people and goods operated through the Waymo controller.”
The “pilot” is Waymo terminology for a mixture of hardware and software that can function as well, or preferably better, as a human driving force. “Level 4” has been explained through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as a “high automation”, with an autonomous vehicle limit to operate all driving purposes “under certain conditions”, with a human driving force that must still take control. NHTSA says it is one step ahead of Level 5, where the vehicle can drive in all conditions.
“FCA has been our first [important in the automotive industry] wife, and we’ve spent a lot of time together,” Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in a statement.
Waymo has been Chrysler Pacifica minivans for its Waymo One service in the Phoenix, Arizona domain since 2018. Waymo has worked with other automakers, adding Jaguar Land Rover, but this agreement means that FCA will only use the Waymo generation to ensure its autonomy. . for its full range.
“Guided by Waymo’s driver,” Said Mike Manley, FCA CEOP, in a statement, the Pacificas “have now traveled miles more safely and reliably than any vehicle on the planet.”
He added that corporations would open “new frontiers for vehicle sharing, advertising distribution and automobiles around the world.”
Commercially, the next FCA vehicle to get the Waymo Driver will be the ProMaster RAM, a shipping vehicle. Waymo said ProMaster would join Waymo Via, its transportation and delivery division.
FCA had said in the past that it would work with Aurora, a california-based autonomous start-up, on advertising vehicles.
This seems to be the beginning of an in-depth partnership for Waymo and FCA. “We have already begun working together to design long-term FCA products for the movement of other people and goods operated through the Waymo pilot,” Waymo said.
None of the companies have provided details, but FCA is in the process of merging with the French organization PSA, with the merger officially scheduled for 2021, and the FCA-Waymo plan will likely be absorbed through joint automakers.