The manufacturer Ford has announced a new department to take care of new technologies and autonomous driving.
The new department for new technologies and autonomous driving at ford should accelerate the development in these areas. CEO Faley founded Ford Next last year, which was headed by Franck Louis-Victor. This also includes participation in the start-up Argo AI flowed. A joint venture with the company ADT emerged from Ford Next. Efforts should help the Group to face new times and new competitors, such as Waymo, set.
Faley recently announced that he wants to split Ford’s car production into two: electric cars and conventional combustion engines. Ford Pro will be the van and truck business and Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC will become part of Ford Next.
With this shift, Ford wants to make it more of a start-up that also attracts more IT talent. The former Apple man Doug Field was also hired for this purpose.