(Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields said that an automaker probably will introduce a self-driving vehicle within half a decade, but it won’t be his company, which is focusing on less expensive features that assist in driving.
“Fully autonomous vehicles are a real possibility,” Fields said at a Jan. 5 dinner with analysts and journalists on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “Probably, in the next five years, you’ll see somebody introduce autonomous vehicles.”
Automakers are racing to develop self-driving cars that safely transport commuters in congested urban areas. At the same conference, Daimler AG CEO Dieter Zetsche unveiled the Mercedes-Benz F 015, a concept car that can autonomously move people.
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