Google’s official auto Company: ‘Google auto’

The internet might be all aflame with talk of an Apple vehicle, but according to documents obtained by the Guardian, Google Auto is really where it’s at.

Justin Sullivan-2015 Getty Images Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx (R) and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (L) get out of a Google self-driving auto at the Google headquarters on February 2, 2015 in Mountain View, California. Had lawsuits been filed over the recent accidents, Google Auto would have assumed the liability instead of Google, and Google’s financial assets would have been protected, as stated by The Guardian.

Chris Urmson, head of Google Auto LLC, has been courting manufactures for a few time now but has yet to nail down an auto manufacturer partner. The very next day of his appointment in May last year, the company made an announcement that it will build 100 prototype self-driving cars that will have not steering wheels, accelerators, or brakes.

Google started testing its self-driving cars on public roads in June, but the LLC’s existence doesn’t mean Google is any closer to its goal of making the cars commercially available. So for now, let’s not bother Google Auto for a while. The company’s Lexus cars were recently involved in crashes.

The move to create a subsidiary company for a driverless auto initiative was smart on Google’s part, especially because this field is risky.

Google has been quite aggressive with its project than other automakers and has also tested these vehicles in routes such as highways of Virginia.

Imagining a world where cars are without drivers was generally impossible, but now that Google has the resources and ingenuity to make it possible, the future of driverless cars are among us. Google Auto was also used to apply for each car’s vehicle identification number (VIN). All the cars built so far have been assembled on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, by Google’s manufacturing partner, the engineering firm Roush.