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Ford intends to 2021 to produce a mass model with fully Autonomous control. Such machines will be missing the steering wheel and accelerator pedal and brake. About it reports a press-service of the American automaker.

Drones will correspond to the fourth category according to the classification of the Community of automotive engineers (SAE). That is, all functions on the vehicle will take on the electronic system.



It is expected that unmanned vehicles will be used in the framework of ridesharing — sharing of the machine with the travelers using online services.



Ford will invest in four start-UPS that create the hardware and software for drones. So, before the company Velodyne tasked to develop "affordable" optical range finder LiDAR with the aim to mass-produce them. Israeli firm SAIPS will work on system self-learning artificial intelligence that allows the drones faster "to adapt to the environment."

The company Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC will create a "platform vision", responsible for navigation and recognition of various objects on the road. Finally, Ford has invested in us startup Civil Maps, which is developing three-dimensional maps with high detail.





Ford has begun testing cars with Autonomous functions of management in 2013. Drones based on the Fusion sedan will be tested in different environmental conditions, for example, at night or in winter weather. published

 

Source: motor.ru/news/2016/08/17/fordriveless/