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Ford Autonomous Vehicles: The Spin-Off Company That Will Drop $4 Billion on Autonomous Cars by 2023
Ford Autonomous Vehicles: The Spin-Off Company That Will Drop $4 Billion on Autonomous Cars by 2023-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:36

Ford is planning to spend $4 billion on developing self-driving cars by 2023, the automaker said Tuesday, in an announcement that also detailed the creation of a new spin-off entity cleverly titled Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC. It seems like Ford is consolidating all its self-driving ventures and tech under one roof: the new division will “encompass all aspects of its self-driving vehicle business operations,” the automaker announced.

The Blue Oval generated an immense amount of hype last month by purchasing just outside of the city’s downtown core, the Michigan Central Station. Ford plans to use the former train station as the anchor for a new campus in Detroit that’s focused on research and development for electric and autonomous vehicles.

The new LLC will be housed at the Detroit campus, Ford said, and it’ll invest $4 billion in total in autonomous vehicles through 2023. That includes a $1 billion investment in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company developing self-driving cars.

Unlike counterparts racing to introduce commercialized autonomous cars as soon as possible, Ford has taken a slow approach to the the technology. Both its current and former CEOs have , and Argo AI’s chief has taken pains to .

While I’m not sure a new building can persuade engineers in California to leave behind the pleasant weather of the Valley for Detroit, , this kind of investment from Ford can probably be a decent bargaining chip. Ford hopes to have a fully-autonomous car on the road for limited use in a geo-fenced area by 2021.

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