Google and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) may be working together on an autonomous ride-sharing service that could launch as soon as next year, according to a Bloomberg report. It would be an expansion of a partnership announced earlier this year that saw Google install its self-driving hardware 100 Chrysler Pacifica minivans for testing.

In a event today, Google announced that it is spinning its self-driving project off into a separate company called Waymo, and Bloomberg suggested that the ride-sharing partnership could have been announced at that event, but it didn’t occur.

If Waymo and FCA team up on a ride-sharing service it would finally give Google’s long-running self-driving project a potential revenue stream and give FCA a foothold in the…

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