Ford Motor Company F picked Miami-Dade County as the new testing ground for its self-driving vehicles, per Associated Press. This association with a county government is in sync with the auto giant’s strategy to roll out fully autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021.
Per the news, Ford and its partners – restaurant chain Domino’s Pizza, ride-hailing company Lyft and on-demand delivery-service startup Postmates – are mulling over a pilot program to understand the reactions of the consumers on semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles. Beside this pilot program, Ford also planned to set up its first-ever autonomous vehicle terminal in the county.
Dearborn, MI-based Ford is not the only automaker conducting a test run of self-driving vehicles. General Motors Company GM plans to conduct such tests in New York in 2018. Also, Waymo, an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. GOOG is carrying out such test runs on the roads of cities including Phoenix, San Francisco and Singapore. Japanese vehicle company Nissan Motor Co. NSANY is likely to conduct such services very soon.
However, the partnership between Ford and Miami-Dade County is likely to help the hugely congested Miami city to solve some specific problems and it will also aid in moving people effortlessly from suburbs to the downtown.
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