Google and Ford are rolling out a new Android Auto update to the Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning to elevate the navigation experience.
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Federal safety regulators are investigating Ford's advanced driver assistance system BlueCruise which allows driving hands-free. Three were killed in two Mustang Mach-E accidents with stationary cars.
Tesla opens Superchargers to other EVs in Canada, starting with Ottawa-Sudbury route. Also, Canadian government supports EV charger expansion with 3,000 chargers. Here are the details.
38 million records from multiple companies including Ford, J.B. Hunt, and American Airlines were left exposed to the public internet due to a default configuration in Microsoft Power Apps portals.
Ford has announced a multi-year collaboration to modernize its process as well as the technologies used in its vehicles. It aims to offer Android and other Google services in its cars by 2023.
This initiative, which is expected to be completed in September, will help the carmaker to speed up the production of electric batteries. The UK government has committed £2 million for Vodafone.
Today Ford confirmed that it will be bringing a fully electric edition of its popular F-150 pickup line to the market. A prototype of the electric truck was also teased in a promotional video.
The two companies will extend their existing alliance on development of commercial vehicles to electric and self-driving passenger cars, with Ford getting access to Volkswagen's MEB platform.
Ford has announced that its newer cars under both the Ford and Lincoln brands now support Amazon Key for in-car delivery of packages. The carmaker joins GM and Volvo in supporting the service.
Ford Motor, Walmart, and delivery service Postmates will work together to develop a service for delivering goods and other groceries to Walmart consumers which could someday use self-driving cars.
Ford announced on Monday that it will begin testing its fleet of autonomous cars on the streets of Washington, D.C. The goal of the test is to deploy a commercial self-driving service in 2021.
Ford is taking a different approach to the self-driving segment, launching a pilot test with partners in Miami including Domino's Pizza. The Fusion sedans are part of the initial roll-out.
Popular community-based navigation app, Waze, will feature AppLink integration with SYNC 3 equipped 2018 model year vehicles from Ford and will be enabled via an update for other compatible cars.
The EksoVest from Ekso Bionics is an unpowered exoskeleton that can provide some lift assistance for workers when they perform overhead tasks with power tools over extended periods of time.
The consortium will include Ford, be funded by the UK government, and be led by London taxi firm Addison Lee. It will be exploring automated ride-hailing and sharing vehicles for Londoners.
HoloLens has revolutionized the way Ford designs its vehicles after the company announced that, following a successful pilot the past year, it will expand the role of the device in future projects.
Ford has set itself the ambitious goal of delivering fully autonomous self-driving cars by the year 2021. The company will use them to target Uber rather than focus on selling them to customers.
Ford wants to make all of its new cars a bit more attractive by integrating Android Auto and Apple CarPlay into most of its vehicles. The two infotainment systems will be inside all 2017 models.
A number of high-profile companies, including Google, Ford and Uber have come together to form a lobbying and advocacy group, in an effort to speed up regulation and adoption of self-driving cars.
Following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, Ford CEO Mark Fields believes Apple is working on a car which is expected to be electric powered and self-driving. The Apple car is expected in 2019.
The automaker is trying to test and teach its fleet of self-driving vehicles how to handle snow and treacherous road conditions in the winter, an area where these cars still face considerable issues.
Ford and Google are believed to be forming a partnership around self-driving vehicles. The announcement is expected to be revealed at CES in January.
Car manufacturers are using mobile technologies that power our smartphones every day, so it will come as no surprise that Ford is adopting another mobile tech - Gorilla Glass - to improve performance.
Ford has been given a permit to drive an autonomous version of a Ford Fusion on Californian roads. This will let Ford test in snow and heavy rain which autonomous vehicles have a hard time with.
Ford has announced that it will be parting ways with Microsoft for the next generation of its Sync platform and will use Blackberry's QNX instead to replace its infotainment system.
In a sign of the times, Ford Motor Company has decided to drop BlackBerry, who previously supplied company-issued phones for Ford's many employees, in lieu of Apple iPhones.
A Ford executive said this week the car company is still evaluating who it will work with for the next version of Sync, denying reports that Microsoft is out of the running.
A new rumor claims that Ford could use BlackBerry's QNX operating system in place of Microsoft's Windows for the next version of Ford's Sync in-car computing solution.
Ford director Edsel Ford II says the company's CEO, Alan Mulally, has told its board that “his plan is to stay with Ford through the end of 2014", crushing rumors that he will become Microsoft's CEO.
Some of Microsoft's top investors want Ford CEO Alan Mulally to replace Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as the company's chief executive when Ballmer retires within a year.
Microsoft and Ford have announced that their co-developed SYNC technology is now inside five million Ford vehicles after five years, and will increase to 13 million by 2015.
Microsoft and Ford have announced that over four million Ford cars now have the SYNC technology, co-developed by Microsoft, installed since the first SYNC car was released in 2007.
Ford has announced it plans to add a Google Maps 'Send to SYNC' service to beam driving directions into SYNC enabled cars for free. Ford has picked Google Maps over Bing Maps for its SYNC technology,...
Today at CES 2010 Neowin got a detailed hands on with the new MyFord Touch driver connect technology which is powered by Microsoft Auto and Ford SYNC. Ford announced the latest revision of SYNC and...
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Microsoft and Kia will unveil a Ford Sync competitor at CES next week. Named Uvo, it is based on the Microsoft Auto software platform, now known as the Windows Embedded Auto software platform. According to...
Ford and Microsoft teamed up to show off the Ford SYNC in 2007 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). Ford will be introducing a mobile WiFi hotspot to their vehicles starting next year, but...
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Both Ford and Microsoft have teamed up to release a special edition pink Zune for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While many companies are jumping at the chance to bring awareness to such an important cause,...
Ford Motor on Wednesday said it would offer high-definition digital radio on nearly all 2008 model year Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles as a dealer-installed option. Ford said digital radio could also be installed on...
