Ford to become AI Taxi Company - end selling to individuals

Chief Executive Mark Fields announced a complete change to FORD company. By 2021 he plans to transform FORD into a driverless Taxi company. Halting the sale of vehicles to the public and becoming a rideshare and taxi service using AI/Driverless technology.

“This is a transformational moment in our industry and it is a transformational moment for our company,” Fields said outside Ford’s Palo Alto research center in Silicon Valley. “The next decade will be defined by the automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago.”

latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-ford-silicon-valley-20160816-snap-story.html

Pretty amazing to see established companies already transitioning on 5 year plans.

Earliest full AI driving technology is expected to be complete in Q4 2017.

The time table for fully autonomous driving keeps being moved closer and closer. Very exciting that a big company made public it's plans to become AI taxi service.

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Next generation Audi A8 capable of fully autonomous driving in 2017 Stefan Moser, Head of Product and Technology Communications at Audi has announced that the next generation of their A8 limousine will be able to drive itself with full autonomy. (Source: motoring.com.au, 2014-10-22)

Volkswagen expects first self driving cars on the market by 2019 Johann Jungwirth, Volkswagen’s appointed head of Digitalization Strategy, expects the first self-driving cars to appear on the market by 2019. (Source: Focus, 2016-04-23)

GM: Autononomous cars could be deployed by 2020 or sooner General Motor’s head of foresight and trends Richard Holman said at a conference in Detroit that most industry participants now think that self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 or sooner. Source: Wall Street Journal, 2016-05-10

Nissan to provide fully autonomous vehicles by 2020 Andy Palmer, the Executive Vice President of California-based Nissan Motors Ltd., has announced that Nissan will make fully autonomous vehicles available to the consumer by 2020. These cars will be able to drive in urban traffic. In contrast to Google’s cars, Palmer claimed that they will not need detailed 3D maps for local navigation. (Source: Nissan Motors, 2013-08-27)

BMW to launch autonomous iNext in 2021 At their annual shareholder meeting, BMW CEO Harald Krueger said that BMW will launch a self-driving electric vehicle, the BMW iNext, in 2021. (Source: Elektrek, 2016-05-12)

Ford’s head of product development: autonomous vehicle on the market by 2020 Raj Nair, Ford’s head of product development, expects that autonomous vehicles of SAE level 4 (which means that the car needs no driver but may not be capable of driving everywhere) will hit the market by 2020.(Source: autonews, 2016-02-27)

>Really makes you think

First autonomous Toyota to be available in 2020 Toyota is starting to overcome its long-standing reluctance with respect to autonomous driving: It plans to bring the first models capable of autonomous highway driving to the market by 2020. (Source: Wired.com, 2015-10-08)

Elon Musk now expects first fully autonomous Tesla by 2018, approved by 2021 In an interview by Danish newspaper Borsen, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk accelerates his timeline for the introduction of fully autonomous Teslas by 2 years (!) compared to his estimate less than a year ago (October 2014). He now expects fully autonomous Teslas to be ready by 2018 but notes that regulatory approval may take 1 to 3 more years thereafter. (Source: Borsen Interview on youtube, timeline: 8:06-8:29, recorded on 2015-9-23)

Uber fleet to be driverless by 2030 Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, has indicated in a tweet that he expects Uber’s fleet to be driverless by 2030. The service will then be so inexpensive and ubiquitous that car ownership will be obsolete. (Source: Mobility Lab, 2015-08-18)

Thinks you make hmm

Awesome. I don't like to drive. My ideal world is where I can arrange for the arrival of a driverless cab at specified times and read on my way to/from work.

You're a stupid bitch that deserves slavery and abuse

I can't wait to stand in front of fully autonomous cars while they stop for a red light and never moving so they car won't go and the person will have no control.

Just wait a few years m8. It's gonna be amazing.

The best part is the surveillance afforded by narrow AI.

Things that will be impossible

>Drive by shooting
>using a car for a crime
>stealing a car
>commiting a crime by a parked car

The natural use of sensors and computer vision by these new autonomous cars creates a nice "safety net" in any city that can detect and track criminals.

Not to mention attaching the computer vision abilities to surveillance cameras.

Shits gonna be so dope and ORDERED.

The camera in the car will record your actions, put together a digital signature of any features you have, and automatically issue a fine.

The Camera will know how many heart beats a minute you have, your genetics, and any other information it can gleam from analysis.

Hahah. Shut the fuck up. Even if that was theoretically true, just stand with my back to it. Boom.

It's none of those things

you would be the retard saying

>enjoy relying on mechanics, gasoline, and having a road for your automobile, I'm gonna stick to the freedom of horses!

In an autonomous system you might have to be authorized to visit a residential neighborhood, but you still have all the freedom you had before.

The other cars would be recording you.

The police would be alerted and have nothing else to do since they don't have wrecks or traffic violations to handle.

>cops only deal with wrecks and traffic violations in inner cities


Fine, I will trip and fall right in front of a car. Then i'll have a legal reason to not move for a few minutes.

Catchya bitch.

I'm buying a newer used car without any GPS tech or anything and I'm gonna upkeep and drive that fucker. No AI bullshit for me.

Kind of makes want to save money and buy a horse and go into the mountains somewhere, this is just bad. Getting real sick of what ever this world is becoming.

this is an absolutely retarded idea. theres already been devices made that allow criminals to hack the OBD2 Port on some vehicles allowing them to start the car without a key, whats gonna happen when some fag with a laptop figures out how to override the ai on these pieces of shit and cause an inevitable worldwide pileup?
Guess the days of KISS are gone.

will autonomous vehicles be expensive?

might hold onto my battle wagon a bit longer.

desu fapping on the way to work without having to worry about steering seems comfy as fuck

the internet is a bad idea because it's vulnerable

sounds like a fun time

People thought the same about ordering anything online.
It used be "stupid" to put your real name on the internet and now people have real named twitters and facebooks.

I hate safety.
I'll stick to driving, and no one will tell me otherwise unless they want their $50,000 autonomous vehicles destroyed.

Easy to break robotic cars m8.

Base price of the Tesla 3 is $35,000. Expect other manufacturers to make cheaper ones.

Sounds like a nightmare surveillance state. Thanks, I'll just live with vehicles being used in crimes.

I would honestly not invest in a new car or go with the cheapest possible solution.

Even though it will take years, it's not worth buying a car now due to the resale value declining.

Except for you can control your actions and what you put on the internet, Thus its your responsibility for your actions. Whos to blame when one of these things wrecks into someone who was just minding their own business? Insurance will be high as fuck on these contraptions until they prove themselves to be as good as humans.

CHINA GET FUCKED. AMERICA TECHNO BOYS. WE'RE BACK BITCHES

HINT: It's STILL stupid, son.
You're just used to being a number in a catalog.

Kek, frogs, water slowly coming to a boil, etc.

What will you do when parking spaces no longer exist?

There are multiple ways to get your hands off the wheel. If you can only park at your own house, enjoy "driving" no where.

I applied to become an autonomous car 'operator' for google but got rejected

the process was entirely too drawn out, it took about a month

who's paying to maintain the roads?

>in public
>expect privacy

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there's an autonomous unit for that

god DAMN IT
I hate memes now
even this is a fucking meme

Yeah, I would love to see one of these vehicles make it through Manhattan or any of the boroughs without crashing....lanes that disappear without warning, open manholes that block one and a half lanes with cars merging from all directions into one lane that is not defined with painted lines...interchanges under construction with multiple intersecting painted lines that get repainted as the construction moves...the list could go on and on.

I don't think it's as bad as you think and it benefits poor people more than anyone else.

>guise cars are rideshare nao you don't have to buy em from us anymores lulz
>btw you wouldn't be able to buy them anyway because half of your income now goes to maintaining roads for our wonderful machines that steal your dna anytime you use our cars lulz

>By 2021 he plans to transform FORD into a driverless Taxi company. Halting the sale of vehicles to the public and becoming a rideshare and taxi service using AI/Driverless technology.
Doesn't say that in the article, fag.

Q4 2017

The new machine learning shit is unbelievable but it's real.

You have to understand these vehicles have shared memories. Every day they will gain millions of hours of driving experience and learn from it.

5 years? other than it being a concept can't see it happening myself

it's a pipe dream for now

>Using public porn page
>On infrastructure developed by DOD
>Expect privacy

kek I hope some FBI agent gets bored and sends your family and coworkers a complete list of all your shitposts

Read between the lines.
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Read the article again. They mention they have no plans to sell Driverless cars to individuals. They will be developing a driverless taxi fleet.
AKA, they don't want to scare dumb meatbags or harm current sales by giving away the secret.
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really makes you think huh?

5 years is for commercial enterprises and a conservative time table.

Q4 2017 is when the technology will be ready.

hey fuck you lied
I already passed it along and you fucking cunt mister lied you evil peron

Why do you think I have any illusions about online privacy?

autonomy has significant economic and regulatory roadblocks, and that's a sensationalist headline

ford is not going to stop selling cars by 2020 or 2021, it'll be AN aspect of their business plan and nobody legitimately expects autonomy to be mainstream by 2020 or even 2025.

t. a cadillac employee

>i'm a faggot who hates freedom and is afraid of responsibility
>i don't want to be able to be in control of my own vehicle or destiny

this

>i hate freedom

where/who did you pass it along to?

It's also not a lie. They aren't selling driverless cars to the public. They will only have them in their taxi AI fleet of vehicles with "possible plans to sell individually" aka NEVER.

Ford is transitioning to a Taxi company. They aren't going to say this for obvious reasons though. My Title is more accurate than what they are saying.

I don't. You're on Sup Forums, you should know better.

I do, however, think you are an apologist. It's always fun when apologists drown in the shit they were shoveling.

>car has previously unknown zero day exploit in the software
>get sent into a Jersey barrier at 100 mph because a Chinese government hacker group was ordered to lower the price on Ford stock prior to a buyout by Dongfeng

>What will you do when parking spaces no longer exist?
Toss caltrops under wheels. Fuck you "orderly" and "safe" fucks.
Sometimes, better technology and more autonomy are BAD things.
People are lazy enough as it is FFS. Safety destroys fun.
As far as "driving" goes, I'll use bike/dirt bike.
Even if I'm forced down to driving motorcycles, it's better than letting an automaker's "AI" drive me around. Hell I'd rather walk/run.
And you can bet I'm sabotaging as many robowhips as possible along the way. Might even carry a modified bolt gun with me for lulz.

Even, when to switch lanes. Frequently, the right lane is at a stand still on multi-lane one way streets. To have any hope of making progress and moving, you have to make constant judgment calls about when to be in the left lane and when to be in the right lane and when you finally get in thr right lane to turn right into a side street and there are two taxis parked at the corner so you have to quickly accelerate into a gap in the lane to your left followed by a wide right turn on to the side street. Unless they make all cars in NYC autonomous simultaneously where each car computer interrogates the computer of all surrounding cars, like the TCAS system in aircraft, I just do not see how it is going to work. Put an autonomous car in traffic conditions like I described on its own and it would be in an accident in no time.

my fucking investment agency you cunt WEW lad

not an apologist. These self-driving cars make prison more comfortable and improve the standard of living of avg people. They already won, at least make the cage comfy.

benefits the gubment and nwo more than anyone else

no they aren't

it already IS ready, faggot

>How do you do, fellow Anonymous?

And the world continues to get lazier

Also, driving on empty test roads in California is one thing.
Driving on mountain roads, offroad, in snow and ice or with chains, or in Florida t-storms is a who nother kettle of salmon.

>These self-driving cars make prison more comfortable

>prison

Freudian slip

We are building a panopticon, a prison with no walls.

youtube.com/watch?v=KkpxA5rXjmA

obligatory viewing

Anyway, my post is more accurate than the article. It infers a few layers deep into what is going to happen. The key wording by Ford is that they have no plans to sell self-driving cars to the public. They understand what is going to happen.

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Wall-e here we come.

Obesity will be cured by then. They simply won't store the fat.

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no, they will not be expensive because they already exist.

autonomous tech is already in everything down to a fucking honda civic. autonomy is a suite of sensors that automakers have systematically rolled out incrementally over the last 5-10 years, all that's left to implement is the programming to follow navigation routes (which already exists) and systems to keep the driver in the loop (which already exist).

the "supercruise" you'll see at cadillac will be less than $2,000.

op is a delusional faggot making a mountain out of a mole hill

t. CADILLAC EMPLOYEE AMA

fuck off back to the comment section on popsci, babydick

>Chief Executive Mark Fields announced a complete change to FORD company. By 2021 he plans to transform FORD into a driverless Taxi company. Halting the sale of vehicles to the public and becoming a rideshare and taxi service using AI/Driverless technology.

You literally made this up and all these idiots didn't have the agency to check the article.

I'll explain in a way that meatbags can understand.

Using Ford, Blockbuster, and Netflix.

Ford is saying they are going to be adding a netfix service.

Ford is still going to have blockbuster stores though.

The thing is, we all know the history of netflix vs blockbuster hopefully.

Self driving cars = netflix
Selling cars to people = blockbuster

It won't matter if they still have blockbusters or not, no one will use it (in terms of revenue it will be worthless and declining rapidly).

Here's the biggest issue with AI in cars.
AI isn't programmed by driving experts. It's programmed by programmers.

>but they'll work with pro-drivers!
But THEY are still the weak link in the chain.
People with computer programming degrees are terrible drivers in general. They're like Asian women and old ladies.
And this horrific driving skill and understanding of vehicle dynamics will translate into the AI, even if Lewis Hamilton himself were the pro driver used to help.

Real life isn't Gran Turismo. Sadly.

>trust my live to AI and quality of a car
>Ford of all companies

Fucking nope.

>CADILLAC EMPLOYEE AMA
Does it hurt knowing the pinnacle of American luxury automobiles is primarily associated with Negros?

youtube.com/watch?v=KkpxA5rXjmA

watch this and come back.

your post is wrong though

>no one will use it
Except the millions of people in the western world who love to drive.
Yeah, car companies will abandon that gigantic trillion-dollar-a-year market because soccer moms don't wanna drive Caleb and Hunter(stupid names BTW) to practice.
And no one in rural country will buy a self-driving car. We hicks like to do things manually. That's why we prefer standard over auto.

Guess that whole saying found on road dead is gonna take a whole new meaning soon

you aren't explaining shit, you miserably unrealistic cunt

you're talking 20-30 years at a bare minimum before that becomes a mainstream aspect of an OEM's business model

again

t. CADILLAC EMPLOYEE AMA

can confirm you only read popsci and also think ai will take over the world and solve all of our problems. hint: it won't, just like socialism won't fix anything

Yes, I'm sure in a rural area less people used netflix initially. Doesn't change anything.

The demand for cars will still decline incredibly fast.

>nvidia
The company making GPUs faster and faster even though gaming graphical technology has hit a Trump-level wall? Just so they can keep their profits in "growth".

That's another cancerous idea we have in business nowadays. Eternal growth. Literally cancer.

FAMD when?

(fathers against meatbag drivers)

All your post implies is that I wouldn't want to have GM stock or that you are completely out of the loop.

Ai will take over the world

but the time frame these "experts" are pushing is completely outside of reality

>The demand for cars will still decline incredibly fast.

No it won't.
People, outside of nerdom and autists and women, love to drive. That's a huge market and it ain't going away.

Cars and driving are more popular than ever. Car makers spend millions developing systems that enhance the thrill of driving(GT-Rs, Ferraris, McLarens, all the way down to modern Civics and even fucking Fiat 500s).

>and even fucking Fiat 500
I saw an Abarth 500 the other day, it actually looked pretty nice. If I was an impoverished European relegated to owning a vehicle that had to be small enough to be parked inside my kitchen every night so gypsies won't break into it I'd consider buying one.

mostly status symbols

What % of cars are shit? Like literally bought used, pieces of shit that the owner hates?

This guy gets it.

>Car makers spend millions developing systems that enhance the thrill of driving
when will they develop motion blur + depth of field compression technology?

>No more DUI revenue

Lol like this is going to happen.

It would be nice to have autodrive as an option if at least as reliable and good at driving as low risk human drivers.

I would not buy a car in which manual control is not an option.

>That's a huge market and it ain't going away.
Until the government bans human driving, due to public safety. You think they don't want this? It means no one travels without a destination on the grid. Wherever you go, they know where you are.

We Demolition Man. Now how about some saltless Taco Bell?

called it ~10 years ago
almost nobody will actually buy a car anymore - you will rent autonomous long distance cabs and maybe own/rent a small and efficient car or scooter to get to work/drive around town.

when i was 14 i had the idea of using the guardrails of the autobahn as some kind of monorail system for autonomous cars, simultaneously covering the entire road with solar panels to produce the required energy.

this shit is not happening by 2021, its retarded advertising to get press time and attract dumb investors.

prediction: by 2021 there will be no driverless cars, oil will be even cheaper and Tesla will be bankrupt.

Honestly it would be far more satisfying to ride a horse into town for groceries. Modern life kind of sucks.. Of course the medical advances make up for some of the shortcomings.

And they're fun as hell to drive.
And Fiat spends a lot of money to make em like that and people pay much more for that model because there's a huge market for those of us who love to drive.

Driven cars will never be blockbuster.
They'll be Netflix to AI's Hulu.

>What % of cars are shit? Like literally bought used, pieces of shit that the owner hates?
Not many, if you're a lover of the road.
My own vehicle is pretty shit I'd say, technically, but I love driving it. Especially at 2 in the morning in the summer with empty roads and the windows down, listening to 90s RHCP.

I also like to maintain it. Man and machine are among the closest relationships ever created.
A proper civilized person respects his machines, and considers them his partners in life.
A car won't treat you like shit like a fucking woman will, unless someone's been REALLY bad with it or you have some electronic bullshit interfering in your relationship.

it's not, but no it doesn't

the concern here and it is one i do not share is the fact that cadillac is predominantly loved by southern niggers and primarily by old white people

you have a gook and a kraut cuck running our marketing basically and everyone they've hired fucking hates cadillac and trump and want to turn the brand into SUCH SENSUALITY MMMM YES

they're all a bunch of fucking retards like the rest of the auto industry and refuse to acknowledge that fucking white males will remain the driving force behind cadillac sales and edgy hipsters and sjws will never fucking buy our cars

tl;dr niggers would be a good thing to current leadership, anything but the old white people who actually buy your fucking cars

my post is not wrong, pussyboy. back2popsci4u

autonomous ride-sharing is not going to be a major part of ANY company's business model for a WHILE.

you'll be fine with both gm and ford stock for the forseeable future as both companies have phenomenal balance sheets, tons of cash, tons of potential, and are both keenly focused on the future

gm and ford like ALL auto companies i know of are positioning themselves as "mobility solution" companies and will scale autonomy as necessary, but no. neither company will exclusively be an uber competitor and neither expect private sales to disappear for as far as i know 20+ years, at and certainly after which point they're just guessing and projecting

>timeframe...completely outside of reality
yep

bingoooo

driving is POWER

driving is FREEDOM

driving yourself will NOT go away for a LONG time

That's a reasonable POV.
Option. But remember, who pays for the insurance?

>Until the government bans human driving
The government is getting dumber and dumber. I'm becoming less and less worried about those incompetent fools all the time.

A car isnt an investment and there was never a time shen cars didnt depreciate the moment you bought them.

>And they're fun as hell to drive.
That seems to be the common sentiment about them. In all seriousness if I was looking for a fun little commuter car and I lived in a city with limited parking I'd seriously consider one.

>it's not, but no it doesn't
I was just taking the piss outta ya bud. I actually really like the CTS-V wagon which ironically is one of Cadillac's only offerings that seem to have some traction with young people and I never see it advertised or rolled out as an example of something that can be sold to people who aren't old.

It's still an investment of money. Of course it depreciates. The point is it's like buying a sick 56k modem. Shit will be outdated.

I'd wait until the end of the year and see what stuff Tesla showcases. Supposedly they will be revealing their current Driverless tech soon.

Horses are better for the environment than cars and you can't fuck a car.

hans, don't you have a muslim to get fucked by?
>when i was 14 i had a fantastical idea that would never be implemented

not everywhere is fuckhole europe where cars are banned in certain areas. far from it and certainly far from it in the developing world that will soon overtake you in relevance

when i was 14 i thought that dude with the flying car was actually going to be able to commercialize and sell it in some form eventually

we all have retarded ideas shaded by naivety hans, don't be ashamed

reasonable pov because that's what will happen

people don't want full autonomy in their cars, they want the OPTIONS of the freedom that autonomy provides and the control and visceral experience that driving provides.

they want exclusive autonomy as a SERVICE, which they will get.

this, i forgot to comment on faggot op's comment about not buying a car.

he's the online futurist equivalent of a prepper.