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hey it's Andy with submerged we're here at the Detroit Auto Show where Google just gave us the first look at its brand new fully self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan for the first time Google is making all the autonomous technology itself that means it's building all its own vision equipment cameras sensors and mapping technology instead of buying parts off-the-shelf like it did before the lidar laser sensors and camera are more tightly integrated into the vehicles architecture it looks like a minivan that's been built from the ground up with the specific mission to drive itself not some car with a bunch of fancy tech slapped on top these autonomous minivans are going to hit the public roads for the first time at the end of January 2017 in two cities Mountain View California in Phoenix Arizona late last year Google spun off its self-driving car project into a separate company called way mo in doing so it dropped its plans to build its own self-driving car without steering wheels and pedals and refocused on Hardware the idea was that it would start moving away from using self-driving Lexus SUVs and start packing these chrysler pacifica x' with all the autonomous technology Chrysler's minivans are super roomy and about as high-tech as cars this size can get but more importantly they can fit up to seven passengers which could be really important if Google decides to launch its own self-driving taxi service to compete with uber that's it for now check out more on the verge com and make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube