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Ford Motor Company has announced a new project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to research and develop automated driving for automobiles is underway.
Building on the automated Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle unveiled last month, the new projects are expected to deliver potential solutions for the “longer-term societal, legislative and technological issues posed by a future of fully automated driving”.
Ford’s research with MIT will use advance algorithms to help the vehicle learn to predict where moving cars and pedestrians could be in the future, while the Stanford project will allow the Blue Oval to explore how sensors could be used for the vehicle to see around obstacles.
“Our goal is to provide the vehicle with common sense,” said Greg Stevens, global manager for driver assistance and active safety, Ford research and innovation. “Drivers are good at using the cues around them to predict what will happen next, and they know that what you can’t see is often as important as what you can see. Our goal in working with MIT and Stanford is to bring a similar type of intuition to the vehicle.”
Ford’s research with MIT will use advance algorithms to help the vehicle learn to predict where moving cars and pedestrians could be in the future, while the Stanford project will allow the Blue Oval to explore how sensors could be used for the vehicle to see around obstacles.
“Our goal is to provide the vehicle with common sense,” said Greg Stevens, global manager for driver assistance and active safety, Ford research and innovation. “Drivers are good at using the cues around them to predict what will happen next, and they know that what you can’t see is often as important as what you can see. Our goal in working with MIT and Stanford is to bring a similar type of intuition to the vehicle.”
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