Google cars may be future threat to industry

Google could become a "serious competitive threat" to the car industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars, Mark Reuss, product-development chief at General Motors has warned.

GM, which is developing its own autonomous vehicle technology, isn’t in a race with Google to create driverless cars, he said.

Google announced last month it plans to deploy at least 100 fully autonomous vehicles that it designed in tests starting this year. The two-seat cars will have a top speed of 40 km per hour and no steering wheel. Google previously had been testing its technology in other vehicles, such as Toyota’s Prius.