Honda and Waymo, the Alphabet, trading technology for cars … – Investing.com Brazil

(Reuters) – The Honda is in negotiation to provide vehicles for the Waymo, of the Alphabet, to test stand-alone technology, in the more recent partnership of an assembler with a technology company to supply its own efforts automation.

The conversations that took place only a week after the Waymo become an independent company, can transform the Honda in the second partner of the technology company, after the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to have agreed in may to add the technology to its minivans.

The shift illustrates how the automakers, faced with the high cost of development of technologies in autonomous internally, are dividing between those who are doing this alone, as General Motors (NYSE:), and Ford Motor, and those that are joining to reduce the costs.

Honda has worked alone to develop cars that do not need driver to be on the roads by 2020, whilst noting that vehicles always need drivers. But he said he was interested in the approach of the project of autonomous car Google -now Waymo – to develop cars completely autonomous and without drivers.

“There is only one amount of technology that a company can develop while focusing on a specific approach,” said the spokesman from Honda, Teruhiko Tatebe, to Reuters. “To address the issue through multiple angles it is possible to propose innovations more quickly.”

A representative of the Waymo said that the company was “eager to explore opportunities of collaboration with Honda”.

(By Alexandria Sage and Naomi Tajitsu)

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