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The automaker path to autonomous cars has changed
After this week's
seismic collapse of leading autonomous driving startup Argo AI, it's tempting to think self-driving cars will never materialize. But as a tail-end baby boomer, I'm sticking with my long-held belief: Self-driving cars will be widely available just about the time authorities decide to yank my driver's license.
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What's changed: How carmakers see the path to autonomy.
- Instead of shooting for the moon — cars that fully drive themselves in all conditions — many automakers are adopting an interim strategy of equipping cars with partial automation to handle the worst aspects of driving.
- It's easier and cheaper, and they can do that soon, with many of the same sensors and software they've been developing for fully autonomous cars.
A few carmakers, including GM, Ford and Tesla, already offer hands-free technology for some stretches of highway driving.
- Even more advanced systems are coming soon from Mercedes-Benz, Volvo Cars and others that will take over during traffic jams and don't require human supervision, so drivers can relax or even catch up on email.
Driving the news: Ford CEO Jim Farley explained the shift in his company's thinking on Wednesday after announcing the Argo pullout (Ford's joint-venture partner, Volkswagen AG, is also stepping away).
- When Ford first invested in Argo back in 2017, it expected to bring robotaxis to market by 2021.
- "But things have changed, and there's a huge opportunity right now for Ford to give time — the most valuable commodity in modern life — back to millions of customers while they're in their vehicles," Farley said.
The promise of self-driving cars hasn't changed, despite recent speed bumps.
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On a lighter note our readers have spotted a Ford F-350 with what they believe to be a Time Machine supported on a temporary rack on the back tray.
These readers who are Ford fans claim that they were alerted to this possibility by the coded message from their leader CEO Jim Farley who said: "But things have changed, and there's a huge opportunity right now for Ford to give time — the most valuable commodity in modern life — back to millions of customers while they're in their vehicles,".
In late breaking news a reader whose late husband was a FORD test driver but tragically died when a Tesla vehicle ran him over him in a marked crossing because he was wearing a horizontally stripped yellow and purple jacket with green slacks and orange shoes.
A spokesperson for Tesla said at the time how could anyone anticipate such bad fashion sense.
Admitting that her husband was indeed a crime against good taste she nonetheless claimed to have seen him driving a similarly described Ford F-350 and believes this proves that FORD is testing a time machine.
All of the readers interviewed claimed how else do you give back time but with a time machine and a number claimed that this project has been ongoing for at least three years at a secret joint Ford/NASA facility where a revolutionary technology AKIDA has been tested.
When Wheels contacted FORD and NASA for comment they were told a written response would be provided yesterday.
Now on a serious note. While not against the idea that FORD closing down Argo had some part to play I will remind posters of the following:
1. When Ford was announced the market yawned and said that’s good.
2. When nothing was released every fifteen minutes retail shareholders fuelled by MF and AFR claimed that FORD Brainchip came to nothing and it was dead in the water.
3. I regularly have had to post about how the fact that there was an ASX announcement of FORD requires a further ASX announcement if it is discontinued.
4. So the point being I personally doubt that the bulk of Brainchip retail shareholders had any strong attachment to the idea of FORD and Brainchip working together and have run screaming to the door when Argo was shut down.
5. Logic says that as both Peter van der Made and Elon Musk have both said the plastic bag blowing across the road has to be resolved before full autonomy is possible their opinions have been vindicated by Argo’s demise.
6. Further the yet to be released AKIDA 2.0 with LSTM is expected to solve the plastic bag issue and so Brainchip will have in its catalogue that which every manufacturer of autonomous robotic devices including automobiles requires.
My opinion only DYOR
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