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Here’s why Ford is panicking in self-driving cars: Alphabet is years ahead of everybody | CNBC


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25 May 2017



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The recent CEO shuffle at Ford suggests it’s getting serious about self-driving cars: On Monday, it promoted its head of “Smart Mobility,” Jim Hackett, to the CEO role. But statistics show that Ford — and every other car maker — is way behind Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, when it comes to testing autonomous cars on real roads.

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