Ford Plans a Fleet of Fully Autonomous Cars Operating in a Ride-Hail Service By 2021 (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @06:53AM from the autonomous-future dept.

Ford will mass-produce autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021, Ford chief executive Mark Fields said today at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California. Recode reports:Fields announced that the company is working toward launching a fleet of commercial, level 4 (one level below a completely autonomous system, in which drivers don't have to be engaged) vehicles in a ride-hail service by 2021. The details of that ride-hail service -- such as which company Ford will partner with to operate it -- still haven't been determined. As part of that effort, Ford is investing in Velodyne, a self-driving tech company, and is working with three other startups. Ford has acquired Israel-based computer vision and machine learning company SAIPS, struck up an exclusive licensing agreement with machine vision company Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC and, as previously announced, invested in 3-D mapping startup Civil Maps.

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Just like FBI --- FUCKED ON RACE DAY by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-16 07:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just to manufacture the machinery to build the vehicles will take massive amounts of oil. Just one tire takes something like 11 gallons of oil.
This is not useful nor is it safe nor is it green. It is job creation and Wall Street equity pumping. No steering wheel means your cars would rely on what? Computers. Any idea who will want control over those computers? The same ones who want control over your computers right now.
Fucking dead spies.