Google has yet again added another project under its belts, this time concerning the car industry. Assuming that the reports end up to be true, the tech giant may be teaming up with one of the biggest names in the automobile industry, Ford. And if it does come to that, an announcement might be waiting for next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

According to reports, the two companies might be developing a blueprint for a self-driving car that might tip the scale of the transportation industry. The companies are supposedly creating an independent joint venture to protect their parent companies from potential liability for producing self-driving cars. This is said to be part of a nonexclusive deal, which means that Google can enter into similar partnerships with other car makers as well.

Recently, these two companies have been making news involving something that might be related to their upcoming announcement. Ford has just received approval on testing autonomous cars on public California roads last week, while the tech giant was separating its self-driving car research and putting it into a new Alphabet company.

Google has been known not only for its online services but for also being the pioneer in the self-driving car space. And it has been a concern for some time what its plans are for commercializing its successful driverless cars, and with Ford it seems like those concerns have been addressed.

It can also be recalled that although the search engine company has been on a self-driving research, it stated that it is more interested in making that research work and least interested in creating the cars to be used for that research, even though it has been creating its own prototypes.

Ford, on the other hand, has also been showing off to the public some of its self-driving prototypes. It has also announced that in 2016, the public testing of its autonomous cars in California will commence.

With both those facts hanging between the two, it seems they don't need each other but could prove formidable if they combine together. There's also the fact that the new CEO of Google's spun-off company for its self-driving cars, John Krafcik, used to work at Ford for 14 years before eventually working for the tech giant. Talk about coincidence and destiny perhaps.