Ford has announced its plans to mass-produce fully autonomous self-driving cars without steering wheels by 2021.

The company’s chief executive Mark Fields said the self-driving vehicles will initially be used for ride-sharing and ride-hailing, with sales to individual drivers coming at some point later. “This is a transformational moment in our industry and it is a transformational moment for our company,” Fields said outside Ford’s Palo Alto research center in Silicon Valley. “The next decade will be defined by the automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago.”  more ...

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