 Hey, it's Andy with The Verge, and 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 vehicle's 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 and Phoenix, Arizona. Late last year, Google spun off its self-driving car project into a separate company called Waymo. 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 Pacificas 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 TheVerge.com and make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube.
 Hey, it's Andy with The Verge, and 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 vehicle's 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 and Phoenix, Arizona.
 Late last year, Google spun off its self-driving car project into a separate company called Waymo.
 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 Pacificas 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 TheVerge.com and make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube.