By John Davis, Director of Autonomous Vehicle and Future Technology, Ford Motor Company Improving the future of mobility is more than just getting people or deliveries from point A to point B. Mobility provides someone with the ability to access education, jobs, healthcare even fresh food. Our goal at Ford is to give every person the freedom to move, and help make lives better. As a result, our teams are exploring different mobility applications to understand how they can address real transportation pain points in communities. Most importantly, how can we build mobility services that fee ..read more

By Jamie Forbes, Enterprise Connectivity Manager, Ford Motor Company Photo Credit: Clemson University At Ford, we’re working to build a better world where every person is free to pursue their dreams. Developing innovative mobility solutions for the future will require building a new generation of engineers, designers and creatives minds. That is why we teamed up with Clemson University’s Deep Orange automotive engineering program — a two-year master’s program where students design and build fully-functional concept vehicles from the ground up. For the program’s tenth iteration, calle ..read more

By Dragos Maciuca, Greenfield Labs Technical Director, Ford Motor Company Ford employees working at Greenfield Labs in Palo Alto, California. Ford Motor Company was one of the first tech startups 118 years ago to put the world on wheels. Today, we are seeking out like-minded innovators as Ford once again looks to transform the way people move through electrified, connected and autonomous vehicles. This means we have to again compete like a challenger, including collaborating with future-focused innovators that are disrupting many parts of how we live, work and play. That is why we helped ..read more

By Donna Bell, Director AV & Mobility Strategy, Ford Motor Company At Ford, our purpose is to help build a better world, where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. As we pursue this purpose, we strive to be a leader in inclusive representation, anti-racism, and transportation equity. Building on Henry Ford’s original vision of providing affordable transportation for everyone, today we continue to aspire to make people’s lives better by improving mobility and accessibility for all in an equitable way by partnering and collaborating with cities and universities, incorp ..read more

By Callahan Coplai, Product Owner City Solutions, Ford Motor Company Building a transportation system where people can move safely is a top priority for nearly every city leader — whether someone is commuting to work or taking an e-scooter to meet a friend. According to the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA), each year more than 35,000 fatalities occur as a result of motor vehicle crashes in the United States. In fact, NHTSA found that while there were fewer cars on the road in the first half of 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were more deaths per mile travel ..read more

By Brett Wheatley, TransLoc CEO and Vice President of Mobility Businesses, Autonomous Vehicles LLC, Ford Motor Company With the growing shift to electrification, we are on the cusp of dramatically altering something that hasn’t changed in decades: The way we move. From personal vehicles to scooters and bikes, electrification is creating new forms of accessible transportation while helping to reduce congestion, reduce pollution and make it even easier to get to work and visit friends and family. But there are challenges as well. The invention and adoption of vehicles and mass transit ..read more

By John Davis, Director of Autonomous Vehicle and Future Technology, Ford Motor Company Back in 2018, Ford issued a comprehensive report to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that outlined the way we approach self-driving vehicle development. A lot has changed in the years since, but our purpose has remained rock solid: to use autonomous technology to help make people’s lives better by providing a safe, trusted and affordable mobility solution. Since we released that first safety report, we have continued bringing together all the complex pieces needed to launch a self-driving s ..read more

By Gina Schrader, City Solutions Midwest Manager, Ford Motor Company About two years ago, Ford launched the City:One Michigan Central Station Challenge with the City of Detroit Office of Mobility Innovation and what is now the Office of Future Mobility & Electrification to identify proposals that could help improve the way people move around Michigan Central Station and the surrounding communities. At Ford, our goal was to engage local officials, businesses and communities in a conversation focused on improving mobility for those living, working and visiting the area around the train ..read more

By Ken Washington, Chief Technology Officer, Ford Motor Company There’s a new frontier in innovation, one that cannot be seen with the naked eye, but that exists, nonetheless. Everywhere you look, cities, companies and entire countries are pouring significant resources into connectivity, linking up all kinds of things so they can communicate with each other. This connected world will enable capabilities that start bringing to life visions of future transportation only seen before in sci-fi movies. At Ford, we’ve taken bold steps in this direction, equipping our new vehicles with fac ..read more

By Tony Lockwood, Technical Manager, FutureTech, Ford Motor Company A Ford self-driving test vehicle travels through Miami. As Ford brings together a self-driving commercial business in Miami-Dade, the company is thinking about all the complex pieces needed to build its service. One of the most critical pieces is being built by our partner Argo AI: A robust self-driving system that will drive safely, fit in with the natural traffic flow and local driving behaviors and provide a great ride experience for customers. Self-driving vehicles need to be prepared to navigate intersections, s ..read more