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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Waymo’s approach to self-driving makes more sense than Tesla’s
Farley says that LiDAR is “mission critical.”
But Ford, the number three automaker in the U.S., which plans to work with partners to incorporate self-driving technology into its future vehicles, does not seem likely to license Tesla’s tech anytime soon, based on Farley’s comments on Friday. He pointed out that both Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, and Tesla “have made a lot of progress” on self-driving, and Farley acknowledged that he has had conversations with Elon Musk. This approach has drawn scrutiny across the industry from people who question whether it is as safe without the redundancies, even as Musk argues that it’s more economical and performs just as well
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