Ford’s “Driverless” Food-Delivery Vehicles in Miami Aren’t Actually Driverless (New Times)
“Research vehicles for our business pilots are designed to appear as self-driving, however, they are manually driven by an experienced driver,” Ford wrote this week in a post on Medium. “The focus of our research is on the first and last mile of the delivery experience.”
Actually not odd or surprising — this is how testing of would-be autonomous works nationally, for safety and liability reasons.
