Will Your Car Have No Steering Wheel in 5 Years? Google Makes Its Self-Driving-Car Move

By Max Macaluso and Eric Bleeker – Jun 4, 2014 at 7:52PM

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Will Google be able to get its driverless car, or at least the tech behind it, into the marketplace? Or will companies not want to play ball with the Internet giant?

Google (GOOG -1.96%) recently released an impressive video that showed the latest version of its driverless car in action. But how will this car be accepted -- or rejected -- by the marketplace when (or if) it becomes available? More so, with Google routinely draining margins out of markets it enters, will car companies want to "play ball" with the company if it attempts to license its driverless car technology?

In the following video, Motley Fool tech analyst Eric Bleeker and Max Macaluso discuss Google's past entries into new markets and its possible future paths.

Eric Bleeker, CFA, has no position in any stocks mentioned. Max Macaluso, Ph.D., owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Amazon.com, Apple, and Google (A and C shares). We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.