Hitting a brick wall

We can’t make back up cameras that work and we expect customers to trust us with cost effective autonomous driving. LOL.

Chief Executive Jim Farley said the automaker expects to start offering the so-called Level 3 autonomous driving technology by 2026, Bloomberg reported Monday.

The technology enables hands-free driving and allows drivers to take their eyes off the road.

"We can do it now pretty regularly with a prototype, but doing it in a cost-effective way is just the progress we're going to need to make," Farley was quoted as saying in a Friday interview with Bloomberg TV.

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“Canopy” was supposed to have a cameras covering a van’s interior, another failure from Ford X or Ford Next or Integrated Services or whatever they call losing Billions per year these days.

Tom…. It would have taken you less time to do an internet search than to type your comment…. The camera issues are common knowledge and acknowledged by Ford so no evidence required.

I purchased a Mustang Ecoboost Premium in 2022 when I worked at Ford. The backup camera worked fine and continues to work fine. I've never had any problems with this car so I have no clue where pronouncements like "We can’t make back up cameras that work" are coming from. Posters should provide evidence to support their statements otherwise they are useless.

Just hire more software engineers. Your Welcome! LoL

Most companies want autonomous vehicles. Not because they are safe. (They would all have to be able to talk to each other to be safe. Each company is designing their own under proprietary technology.) They want us to be able to work while commuting to give the company an extra 1-2 hours of free labor each day.

i get random triggers of the stability control all the time on dry pavement. you think i'm gonna trust some automatic braking nonsense. it's gonna slam on the brakes at the wrong time and cause massive pileups.

ford cant even make a touchcreen that works in my mustang.
station changes, climate control turns on and off, map keeps recentering.

The Ford Purchasing "cost effective" way: Save a dollar and lose a life. Disaster coming.

So why not move in the other direction? Nobody I know wants a self driving car given all of the complexities, the stuff that can break and go wrong. Nobody. If you're adding software complexities to justify cost increases, I think that ploy has a very short life.

Cost isn’t the problem. The first serious accident in one of these will result in a stop ship forced on the company while society figures out who is to blame when software takes out a person. Level 3 isn’t a technical challenge, it’s a social/legal problem that won’t be solve by 2026. Ask George Ghazzoul from Montreal how things are going with his Tesla summon feature.

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