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Google doesn't want to produce its own car by itself, so, it talked to various car manufacturers and hire a new CEO for Self-Driving Car.

Earlier this year, Google has integrated an Auto project and has been talking to several car manufacturers about producing the Google Car. according to The Guardian, however, none of the car manufacturers that Google talked to has closed a deal with. John Krafcik, the president of online car-shopping service TrueCar Inc., though, is the new hired CEO for self-driving Google Car.

It seems that Google wants to have a partner with specialty in car manufacturing to produce the technology and doesn't want to manufacture its driverless cars by itself. However, Krafcik's auto industry experience is already an edge to develop an epic self driving car.

As what the Managing Director of Google for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland said on the Auto Show at the Frankfurt, Google does not want to start producing cars in a hurry and aims to come up with a user-friendly and safe to use automobile.

"Self-driving cars could save thousands of lives, give people greater mobility, and free us from things we find frustrating about driving today," John Krafcik said.

Reportedly, Google had no intentions of making the self-driving cars available to the public but Sarah Hunter, head of policy for GoogleX, has admitted that the company is now considering selling these self-driving cars to the users in the future.

Based on reports of Google self-driving car features, it has no steering wheel, brake pedal, or an accelerator. It is limited to 25MPH and currently requires detailed maps of the area with centimeter accuracy regarding to road features like lanes, traffic circles, and stop lights. Nowadays, mobile cars are getting easier and faster to maneuver, though, not that quite easy because of some unfamiliar signs.

Software expertise has become a new battleground for automakers and tech firms as cars need lines of code to connect electric car motors to batteries, talk to smartphones or activate brakes when a radar system detects an obstacle ahead, according to Business Insider.

After all, whatever Google decides to do, the company would be facing a hard time competition. From Uber up to its Silicon Valley rival Apple, Google should definitely master its project.