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Ford in the archive

Reports filed on Ford between 2013 and 2018, kept at the addresses they were published under.

Reports
44
Period
2013–2018
Sources
5
Topic
Ford

Context

The archive holds 44 reports filed under Ford, spanning 2013–2018. The earliest is “Getting Started”; the most recent is “NVIDIA milestone helps keep the D20’s 2018 streak of gains intact”. Original reporting came via Jennifer van der Kleut, Burney Simpson, Darcy Conlin and others.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under Ford overlaps most often with Autonomous, Driverless, Google and self-driving cars, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.

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Reports filed under Ford

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