#ford motors

During the annual Further with Ford Summit in Palo Alto, California, the American automotive company is expecting fully autonomous vehicles to run in public roads in the next 5 years. That's right -- it's possible to buy and own a self-driving Ford car by 2020. Assistive mode is already in the market and being used by Ford vehicles in the form of collision detection, cruise control and obstacle avoidance. Remote and fully automated mode are currently under research and development and we've seen some demo from Ford showing remote-parking cars. Ford has identified several key factors for autonomous technology -- sensors, high-powered processing, algorithms, 3D mapping, 4G connectivity and vehicle integration. Upon the invitation of Ford Motors, we visited their Palo Alto Research and Innovation Center of Ford in San Francisco last week where they showed us their new line of smart e-bikes. These e-bikes are part of Ford's multi-modal urban mobility solution -- an approach to solve the problem of city traffic and transport congestion. Ford is still doing additional research and development on their e-bikes and the ones that were shown to us are still prototypes. Read more in our articles including "Ford promises autonomous vehicles by 2020" and "Ford unveils smart e-bikes MoDe:Flex, MoDe:Me and MoDe:Pro".