Ford Two Years Away From Letting Drivers Take Eyes Off the Road

Ford Motor Co. is just two years away from offering technology that will allow drivers to take their eyes off the road and their hands off the wheel, according to Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley.

“We’re getting really close,” Farley said in a May 31 interview with Bloomberg TV’s David Westin. “We can do it now pretty regularly with a prototype, but doing it in a cost-effective way is just the progress we’re going to need to make.”

Jim Farley

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Farley believes Ford can make that progress quickly enough to be offering the feature in 2026, which could ...