Honda, Google in talks on self-driving car prototype

Honda is in talks with Google to install the tech company's self-driving technology in Honda vehicles.

Honda will have to provide Waymo with vehicles that are specially modified to accommodate the self-driving technology, while Waymo would lend Honda its insight into self-driving technology, a field every automaker is interested in these days.

The automaker says that if a deal is reached, it will provide vehicles to Waymo that are modified to handle the technology. The Hondas would join Waymo's fleet that includes Lexus SUVs and Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

If an agreement is reached, Honda R&D engineers would work closely with Waymo engineers.Honda has said it intends to put autonomous vehicles on highways around 2020.

The potential partnership would be the latest in a flurry of autonomous vehicle deals recently between technology companies and automakers and it could boost the Waymo fleet to well over its current convoy of 100 vehicles. 

Google has been working on software and sensors since 2009 and has been testing autonomous cars on public roads for several years.