- At the CES press conference this year held in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ford announced its intention to move towards the development of autonomous vehicles. First, the company said it would triple its autonomous vehicle test fleet.
According to Raj Nair, Ford group vice president for product development, Ford has 30 autonomous vehicles Fusion on the slopes of the road test in California, Arizona and Michigan. That their largest fleet of autonomous vehicle development in the auto industry. The fleet will be used to accumulate miles in tests of the real world and thus it will further improve Ford software.
In the same time, Ford also revealed its third generation LIDAR technology currently used in its cars driving auto. The device was named Ultra Puck and it was manufactured by Velodyne. It is much smaller, but has a longer detection range of 0 meters from its last generation. In addition to this, he improved accuracy to better create maps and models for testing.
Mark Fields, CEO of Ford said that when the first Ford autonomous vehicle comes out, it is not only for those people who bought luxury vehicles, instead, it would be an autonomous vehicle designed to serve millions of customers.
Fields also added that Ford would continue to work with others, not just vehicles for retail customers, but also on autonomous vehicles to transport as a service and which includes customer service who might not own a vehicle in the future as the young, the elderly and those looking for an alternative to public transport.
Ford has been rumored to be working with Google to help develop its autonomous technology even though it was not mentioned in the press conference.
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