Self-driving cars, Ford will appear on European roads in 2017

Not only in Tesla Motors make autopilots for cars. In Europe, popular and fashionable niche tend to take all the major car manufacturers, but of their intentions to run test cars with the autopilot in Europe and announced American company Ford.





The first test of the autopilot Ford will start in the English engineering centre of Essex, then testing will continue in the German cities Aachen and Cologne. Experts of the automaker is already preparing to conduct research in the field. Speaking about why Ford chose for testing Europe, a company representative said that the laws in the EU is much more liberal in respect of unmanned vehicles, but in each country of the EU they are different, which allows to conduct test drives in different conditions.



For its tests on the roads, Ford will use a Ford Fusion hybrid equipped with sensors and cameras. These cars look almost the same as normal, except that their roofs are located lidars. The plans for Ford in the next five years to begin mass production of cars with the autopilot of the fourth level. Zero machine without automation at all, while the fifth — fully automated vehicle. published

 

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