Former Ford CEO and current executive chairman Bill Ford says he has a plan to cut urban car gridlock. This would involve smartcars that could take drivers around traffic choke points. Also part of the plan are cars which can drive themselves.
Bill Ford’s plans are probably in a race with an every rising use of cars in and around big cities, which means that the fulfillment of them will be a challenge
Mr. Ford—who has been speaking out for the past two years about the need to address urban traffic—envisions a future in which fully autonomous cars are connected to a database that coordinates automobile travel with public transit and other transportation methods and parking. Mr. Ford wouldn’t say how much money the company will invest in these efforts. But last year, Ford said it doubled its investment in vehicle-to-vehicle communications and created a 20-member task force to help implement the technology in its vehicles
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