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INSIGHT-Google, Detroit diverge on road map for self-driving cars

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Technology and the auto-industry is ever-more conjoining, according to Reuters. In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with some of the world’s largest car makers, to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. It was as if the two were “talking a different language,” recalls one person who was present. Even now, the auto companies are watching Google closely in trying to understand what exactly its intentions and ambitions are…

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