Could people someday be flocking to a Google dealership for their next automobile? Don’t bet on it, says a top Google executive.

Google has aroused plenty of interest in recent years with its self-driving car project, but Chris Urmson, Google’s director of self-driving cars, says that the company has no interest in becoming an automaker and will seek a partner to build cars using this technology, according to a USA Today report.

It’s not clear when this will happen, as Urmson didn’t give a target date during his presentation at an auto industry conference in Detroit recently. However, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, he said he hoped to have self-driving cars on the market in the next five years with prototypes being built in Livonia, Mich.

These Pod-like prototypes are developed an assembled, and then are scheduled to undergo testing at Google’s facilities in California in the spring.

Urmson doesn’t think regulations will pose a problem for driverless cars, pointing out that many states such as Nevada, California, Michigan, Florida, and Washington D.C. allows it by law, and states such as Georgia have decided laws don’t need to be changed in order to allow cars on autopilot.

The announcement reassures companies like General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler, who have struggled in recent years and could ill-afford another high-level competitor, especially one such as Google.

Urmson said Google is “definitely not in the business of making cars,” although it built bubble-shaped autonomous vehicles for testing.

He also said the venture wasn’t even intended to be a cash cow for Google, which at its core remains a search-engine business.

The Google Self-Driving Car is a project that involves developing technology for so-called autonomous vehicles using software called Google Chauffer.

The car is equipped with a number of sensors to detect its surrounding environment, including a range finger using a laser, which creates a 3D map of its environment, combining them with high-resolution maps of the world to allow the vehicle to navigate on its own.

A total of 10 cars are in the project’s test group, including an Audi TT, three Lexus RX450h, and six Toyota Prius. Each one has a driver’s seat with a driver sitting in it that can take over if need be. The car has even demonstrated its ability to guide itself through city traffic.