Self-driving cars,Excellence!???

Self-driving cars,Excellence!???

Uber just snagged a top Ford executive to help develop self-driving cars.

Uber said on Thursday that Sherif Marakby, who was director of global electronics and engineering at Ford, will join the company.

Marakby will serve as vice president of global vehicle programs. He'll be based out of Pittsburgh, which is where Uber has its Advanced Technologies Center, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. Uber announced more than a year ago that it would be working to develop self driving car technology.

http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/ford-self-driving-car-dark/
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/technology/uber-ford-self-driving-cars/index.html?iid=SF_LN

Autonomous vehicle passes important test.

One of Ford’s self-driving cars has successfully navigated a winding road at night and without headlights, showing that it can operate without the usual cameras that depend on sunshine and street lamps.

Ford’s self-driving cars typically use a combination of radar, cameras, and light-sensitive radar called lidar to detect—and avoid—what’s around it. The recent test at Ford’s Arizona proving ground showed lidar is advanced enough to operate independently on roads that don’t have stoplights, the company said on Monday.