Google, Ford and Uber Team Up for Driverless Car Coalition
- Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
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Google has allied with car makers Ford and Volvo and taxi apps Uber and Lyft to form the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, a group dedicated to promoting “the safety and societal benefits” of driverless vehicles.
David Strickland, former head of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will be counsel and spokesman for the coalition.
The coalitions mission is combating fears about the safety of self-driving vehicles – which all five partners are currently working to develop – and soften laws against vehicles which cannot be piloted by a human. 
The group will lobby law-makers, regulators, businesses and local governments to encourage “policy solutions that will support the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles,” according to a Ford statement.
