The Ford Fusion with its LIDAR ears allowing autonomous driving
Car makers are starting to take self-driving, autonomous cars very seriously, and we’ve recently seen Mercedes testing their autonomous driving S-Class in Berlin, Volvo planning a big trial of 100 self-driving cars in Gothenberg and Tesla planning systems that will do 90 per cent of your driving within 3 years. Now it’s Ford’s turn. Ford has equipped a Fusion Hybrid (that’s the North American version of the new Ford Mondeo we still haven’t got in the UK) with its autonomous vehicle technology to conduct research in partnership with the University of Michigan and State Farm (a big group of insurance companies in the US). The test Fusion gets a system called LIDAR (light detection and range – the funny looking ears on the top of the Fusion in the picture above) which can scan the road ahead up to 2.5 million times a second and create a 3D map of the surroundings.
Hagerty magazine publisher Rob Sass recaps Friday's top Monterey auction results from Russo and Steele, Bonhams, Mecum and RM Auctions with Hagerty Price Guide's Dave Kinney and professional appraiser Donald Osbourne. The Monterey Week is packed with car shows, vintage racing and car auctions. Autoweek will be there providing streaming photo galleries and live coverage of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, historic racing at Laguna Seca, the Monterey car auctions and much more.
We picked on Chevrolet for its super-1980's vintage Astro TV commercial on Wednesday. So in the spirit of fair play, we'll turn our attention toward Dearborn today. What could our friends at Ford offer that Chevy didn't deliver with its space oddity?
69 1969 camaro z28 l89 copo 3947772 fan blade g69 date original gm
1953 ford v8 flathead radiator
1962 ford galaxie 500 3 blade fan
1970 waterpump 3969811 camaro chevelle nova impala ls6 bbc 454
New 1966 fairlane radiator bracket upper mount insulators 390 cid comet ford
1961 corvette oem harrison radiator aluminum hi-po only 2 x 4 or fi 270 or 315hp