{"id":861,"date":"2019-12-11T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/11\/self-driving-cars-will-only-last-four-years-ford-says\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:51:09","slug":"self-driving-cars-will-only-last-four-years-ford-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/11\/self-driving-cars-will-only-last-four-years-ford-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars will only last four years, Ford says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.flipboard.com\/telegraph.co.uk\/bda69f8bc736b7a1420a956c2844319ce2331265\/original.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2019\/08\/19\/rebirth-detroit-self-driving-cars-transforming-motor-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"m_first-letter\">S<\/span>elf-driving cars<\/a> will only last four years because they will be used so much, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford<\/a> executive has predicted.<\/p>\n<p>John Rich, operations chief of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2018\/11\/15\/ford-talks-multiple-rival-carmakers-secure-billions-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford Autonomous Vehicles<\/a>, dismissed concerns that demand for cars would wane in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that worries me least in this world is decreasing demand for cars. We will exhaust and crush a car every four years in this business,\u201d he told The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit-headquartered car maker plans to establish an autonomous fleet which will be used as a service by other companies, to be used as delivery vehicles or to transport employees.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh start-up Argo AI, which is developing cars for Ford, is currently testing the technology in five cities&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.twitter_js = {\n\t\t\ttest: \"document.querySelectorAll && document.querySelectorAll('.twitter-follow-button, .twitter-tweet, .twitter-timeline').length === 0\",\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t\t<!-- \/* We cannot compile this JS into our clientLibs due to syntax errors in the Ooyala vendor files and our version of YUI compressor *\/ -->\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.ooyala_core = {\n\t\t\ttest: true,\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/etc\/designs\/telegraph\/core\/clientlibs\/core\/vendor\/ooyala\/ooyala-player.min.js\", \"https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/c2\/plugins\/streamingtag_plugin_ooyalav4.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t\twindow.clientlibs.js.facebook_sdk = {\n\t\t\ttest: \"document.querySelectorAll && document.querySelectorAll('.fb-page').length === 0\",\n\t\t\tload: [\"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js\"]\n\t\t};\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2019\/08\/25\/self-driving-cars-will-last-four-years-ford-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Self-driving cars will only last four years because they will be used so much, a Ford executive has predicted. John Rich, operations chief of Ford Autonomous Vehicles, dismissed concerns that demand for cars would wane in the future. \u201cThe thing that worries me least in this world is decreasing demand for cars. 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