Amrita Khalid, Engadget :
Ford CEO Jim Hackett scaled back hopes about the company’s plans for self-driving cars this week, admitting that the first vehicles will have limits. “We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles,” said Hackett, who once headed the company’s autonomous vehicle division, at a Detroit Economic Club event on Tuesday. While Ford still plans on launching its self-driving car fleet in 2021, Hackett added that “its applications will be narrow, what we call geo-fenced, because the problem is so complex.”
Alors que Tesla fait passer l’assistance pour de l’autonomie, et que Waymo garde son autonomie sous assistance, voilà qui pose des questions. S’agit-il d’un véritable problème technologique, ou bien d’un problème d’investissement (autant financier que psychologique) ?