PLAYING IT SAFE. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO LAUNCH SELF-DRIVING CARS
A Ford self-driving test vehicle stops to allow pedestrians to pass.
Over the last several decades, Ford and the rest of the auto industry have spent a vast amount of resources developing robust, comprehensive processes to ensure we design and deploy safe vehicles because we care about the safety of our customers.
That same mindset dominates how Ford approaches the introduction of self-driving cars. Just as decades of experience have given us safe and reliable development processes for human-driven cars, we need to draw upon that experience and develop the same processes for self-driving ones.
Chris Gerdes of Stanford University joins Ford as a self-driving vehicle safety advisor.