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August 19, 2015

Detroit, Silicon Valley join forces on cars

  • There is both heated competition and unprecedented cooperation between two industries that rarely spoke to each other five years ago.
  • By DEE-ANN DURBIN
    AP Auto Writer

    PALO ALTO, California — The office has all the trappings of a high-tech startup. There's a giant beanbag in the foyer and erasable, white board walls for brainstorming. Someone's pet dog lounges happily on the sunny balcony.

    Welcome to the Palo Alto home of Ford Motor Co., six miles from the headquarters of Google.


     
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