Silicon Valley Decides It’s Just Too Hard to Build a Car
- Apple, Google cede complex mass-production to big automakers
- ‘These two sides look at each other with fear and greed’
An Uber driverless Ford Fusion in Pittsburgh.
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Bill Ford is tired of hearing the future of cars belongs to Silicon Valley. Yet for years, the Apple and Google crowd have been telling him that only Big Tech can make driverless vehicles.
“There was this presumption that we were too dumb to get it,” said the Ford Motor Co. executive chairman and great-grandson of auto pioneer Henry Ford. “The conversation has really shifted.”