Honda is in talks to supply vehicles for Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous car unit, to test self-driving technology, according to the automotive manufacturer. Now a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella, Google-owned Waymo would count Honda as its second partner after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles agreed to add the technology to its minivans earlier this week. The deal with Honda, which will be announced at an event on Tuesday, comes amid growing competition from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., both of whom have been testing their own driverless cars.
Honda is in talks to supply vehicles for Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous car unit, to test self-driving technology, according to the automotive manufacturer. Now a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella, Google-owned Waymo would count Honda as its second partner after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles agreed to add the technology to its minivans earlier this week. As with Chrysler's minivans, Honda may provide vehicles modified to accommodate Waymo's software and has said the start-up's engineers would be in close cooperation with its own.