I felt uneasy last week when Ford CEO Mark Fields told reporters in San Francisco that fully autonomous cars would be available by 2020 — a prediction he has made before. My uneasy feeling is fear. Fields qualified his prediction saying fully autonomous Fords would work only on roads where the digital maps were high quality. Still, I have fear.Then the Ford boss said that fully autonomous cars wouldn’t happen until after the regulatory and legal issues were worked out. That could be a while, as I remember it took two years to get a $23 erroneous phone bill removed from my credit report. But, “technology tends to lead all that,” Fields said, so being a tech fan, I understand his impatience with wanting to sell high-tech autonomous Fords as soon as possible.
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