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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: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 (NYSE: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 (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is carrying out such test runs on the roads of cities including Phoenix, San Francisco and Singapore. Japanese vehicle company Nissan Motor Co. (OTC: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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