A Ford self-driving vehicle image: Ford

Ford has announced that it’ll begin testing the third-generation of its Ford Fusion self-driving vehicles in Detroit. This is a new location in addition to the cities of Palo Alto, Miami, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. The new generation of self-driving vehicles Ford will be testing are equipped with new tech, including upgraded radar and cameras with higher resolution and better dynamic range.

The new version also features a new computing system with more processing power and improved thermal management systems than in previous versions, and also back-up braking and steering systems that’ll get the vehicle to a halt if one of its primary units fail. This (back-up systems) feature is also present in the new self-driving vehicle just unveiled by Volvo and Uber.

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Detroit is a city known for its diversity of road types, which are important for Ford to test its self-driving vehicles on. Ford also has significant engineering operations in the city, which counts as an advantage. The Corktown neighborhood in Detroit serves as a hub where Ford does a bulk of its work on self-driving vehicles.

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