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One of the big mysteries of the race to develop self-driving cars has been who Silicon Valley tech company Google would partner with on the automotive side. Google previously has shown off a sort of generic-looking egg-shaped autonomous car, as well as some Lexus RX tall wagons that it was testing, but that was about it. But now Google has a new partner in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. It’s a marriage that will begin integrating the all-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan into Google Self-Driving Car Project.