Fiat Chrysler, Google to cooperate on autonomous minivans

The companies announced the agreement on Tuesday, saying that Chrysler engineers would work with Google to install sensors and software so the vans can drive themselves.

Google says it will own the gas-electric hybrid vans, and it's not licensing autonomous car technology to Fiat Chrysler or anyone else.

Currently Google's 7-year-old autonomous car project, which is now part of the so-called X lab at Alphabet Inc., Google's Mountain View-based parent company, has 21 Lexus SUVs modified to drive autonomously, plus another 33 pod-like small cars.