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Bill Ford – Laws And Jobs Need To Keep Pace With Self-Driving Cars

Ford's Executive Chairman, Bill Ford, has called on law-makers in the US to get together and sort the logistics behind self-driving cars. Speaking with a gathering in the US captial, Washington D.C., The Detroit News reports Mr Ford belie


Ford's Executive Chairman, Bill Ford, has called on law-makers in the US to get together and sort the logistics behind self-driving cars.

Speaking with a gathering in the US captial, Washington D.C., The Detroit News reports Mr Ford believes the software and hardware required for cars to operate autonomously is the 'easy part', and that both state and federal governments need to catch up.

Ford, like many other carmakers, has promised to offer a fully-autonomous car for sale during the next decade, but Mr Ford said that cannot happen until the correct laws are in place.

Further, Ford raised an issue that has surfaced many times during the greater self-driving car debate: what does an autonomous car do when faced with a life-or-death decision?

“The difficult piece is going to be all the enabling things around it," Ford said. 

"Things like ethics, things like regulations. Ethics in the vehicle itself, i.e. does the vehicle make the decision to save you, the occupant, or to save ten pedestrians if the right thing might be to hurt you, the occupant?”

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