(Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer MarkFields said that an automaker probably will introduce aself-driving vehicle within half a decade, but it won’t be hiscompany, which is focusing on less expensive features that assistin driving.
“Fully autonomous vehicles are a real possibility,” Fields saidat a Jan. 5 dinner with analysts and journalists on the eve of theConsumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “Probably, in the next fiveyears, you’ll see somebody introduce autonomous vehicles.”
Automakers are racing to develop self-driving cars that safelytransport commuters in congested urban areas. At the sameconference, Daimler AG CEO Dieter Zetsche unveiled theMercedes-Benz F 015, a concept car that can autonomously movepeople.
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