Mileage Psycho Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 This to me is really depressing news, just fucking mind numbing Quote Ford’s Road to Full Autonomy Today is a milestone moment in Ford’s history. We’re announcing our intent to have fully autonomous vehicles in commercial operation for a ride-hailing or ride-sharing service beginning in 2021. This is significant. Ford will be mass producing vehicles capable of driving fully autonomously within five years. No steering wheel. No gas pedals. No brake pedals. A driver will not be required. If someone had told you 10 years ago -- even five years ago -- that a major American car company would announce the mass production of a vehicle with no steering wheel, you would have said they were crazy. As little as four years ago, our approach was aligned with the thinking of most automakers today, which is taking incremental steps to achieve full autonomy by advancing driver assist technology. This is not how we look at it today. We learned that to achieve full autonomy, we’d have to take a completely different pathway. So, we abandoned a stepping-stone approach and created a dedicated “top down” engineering program to deliver fully autonomous vehicles and the new mobility solutions and business opportunities that a fully autonomous vehicle could deliver. The world is changing, and it’s changing quickly. We’re not sitting on the sidelines. Ford will be actively driving that change. It’s now clear that the next decade will be defined by automation of the automobile. In fact, we see autonomous vehicles as having as big an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did a hundred years ago. It’s important to understand that this is not just about building an autonomous vehicle. There’s something deeper, something that motivates us every day, something that’s in the DNA of our company. More than a hundred years ago, we were founded with a clear mission: to make people’s lives better. Our founder Henry Ford believed making transportation accessible would advance human progress. Cars used to just be for rich people, but the innovations at Ford brought the automobile to millions of people. At the time, it was a radical idea. Most people in the U.S. didn’t travel very far from their homes. When car ownership became a reality for millions, people became more connected; they explored more and found greater opportunity because they could live, work and play where they wanted. In a way, it was a revolution in the connectivity of average people the likes of which we haven’t seen again until recently. This principle of bringing life-changing technologies to millions of people is at the core of what we do. When we step back and look at how we can make the most difference in people’s lives during the next 100 years, we see the autonomous car changing the way the world moves once again. That’s because autonomous cars address a host of safety, social, and environmental challenges. Read more about our commitment to autonomous vehicles and how we are expanding our presence in Silicon Valley here. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fords-road-full-autonomy-mark-fields?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-hero-14-null&midToken=AQHuE5N-ux8I5Q&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=37fWgVbLzweDo1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoughnut Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 4 hours ago, Mileage Psycho said: This to me is really depressing news, just fucking mind numbing Those would be the cats ass for drunk drivers, when you leave the tavern all shit faced you can hop into your auotonomized vehicle and it will take home safely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 8 minutes ago, snoughnut said: Those would be the cats ass for drunk drivers, when you leave the tavern all shit faced you can hop into your auotonomized vehicle and it will take home safely. Law enforcement and the defense lobby will be the biggest opponent to this. They have already lobbied against Uber in some cities. Or else they will just make being drunk in general a felony... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoughnut Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 9 minutes ago, Anler said: Law enforcement and the defense lobby will be the biggest opponent to this. They have already lobbied against Uber in some cities. Or else they will just make being drunk in general a felony... I don't doubt that for one minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Poor Vince .....Ford leads the way and when they get shit working Chevy will just copy it. Now I am saddened myself by this push for autonomy in transportation but it is the way of the future. Lead , follow or gtfo of the way 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 1 minute ago, f7ben said: Poor Vince .....Ford leads the way and when they get shit working Chevy will just copy it. Now I am saddened myself by this push for autonomy in transportation but it is the way of the future. Lead , follow or gtfo of the way Look at the bright side, it will be harder for you to crash it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 2 minutes ago, Anler said: Look at the bright side, it will be harder for you to crash it... I am an excellent autonomous car driver!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delgaty Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Fuck that shit. How am I supposed to make up time by speeding on the way to work because I slept in 10 min? Guess I could just sleep in the car... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT MXZ XRS Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 7 hours ago, f7ben said: Poor Vince .....Ford leads the way and when they get shit working Chevy will just copy it. Like usual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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