“Not impressed by the ground breaking spirit of Detroit auto manufacturers,” The Times reported, “Google is now thinking about manufacturing them in America, said a person briefed on the effort.”
“You can address some of the aging population trends by keeping a vehicle almost the way it is and making it autonomous,” Borroni-Bird says, “but in an urban context, you almost need to rethink what the automobile does, in terms of range and speed and key performance requirements, and what it looks like.”