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Ford to Crowdsource Fuel-Efficiency App
As part of a campaign to help drivers learn more about how to optimize their fuel usage, Ford announced its Personalized Fuel-Efficiency App Challenge at last week’s New York International Auto Show....
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From the Model T to P2P: How Automotive Innovation is Changing Detroit (Again)
Uber’s car service seeks to improve transit in Detroit. But how will Detroit’s automakers respond? San Francisco’s Uber has turned the limo and cab industry upside down by offering a car service that...
View ArticleWhy an Internet of Everything Event? “It’s the World Waking Up”
What inefficiencies frustrate you in your day-to-day life? What could work better about your home and the things that surround you—your car, your commute, your job, your health care, your aging...
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Why the Internet of Everything Could Mean Fewer Cars
Dire predictions about the mushrooming number of cars jamming the world’s roads and clogging the world’s air may never come true. Instead, a dawning era of super-optimized car sharing is poised to...
View ArticleChinese Companies Set Up Shop in the Motor City
A new wave of investment is happening in long-suffering Detroit. At first blush, that sounds eminently promising—the region, and the U.S. auto industry, is still rebounding from the recession, with...
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How Big Companies Are Feeling Their Way into the Internet of Everything
(From left) David Kirkpatrick, Rob Chandhok, Dave Evans, Paul Rogers, Vijay Sankaran (photo: Asa Mathat) The big players in technology seem to agree that the Internet of Everything (IoE) is a huge...
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Why the Internet of Everything Includes the Internet of You
(From left) Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick, Qualcomm’s Rob Chandhok, Dave Evans of Cisco, Paul Rogers of GE, and Ford’s Vijay Sankaran (photo: Asa Mathat) When the tech industry talks about the Internet...
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What the Sharing Economy Means for Business
Image via Shutterstock With digital peer-to-peer platforms emerging in dozens of vertical markets, the sharing economy appears to be in its own Cambrian explosion of diversity. Participants share cars,...
View ArticleTech and Innovation Must Play Central Role in Detroit Revival
Even as Detroit hits financial bottom, Techonomy retains its belief that applying tech and innovation can be a major aid toward a historic comeback. As Techonomy Detroit 2013 nears, the conference...
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Remaking Detroit Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Car Guy’s View
A 3D-printed prototype shift knob created using Ford’s OpenXC research platform. As a consumer, it is easy to take for granted the innovation needed to create automobiles that are more appealing, leave...
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How the Maker Movement Is Reinventing Retail
From left, Lou Rassey, Matt Clayson, Chad Dickerson, Marleen Vogelaar, and K. Venkatesh Prasad (photo by Asa Mathat) The jury is still out on whether the maker movement could bring about a new American...
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Your Car Will Take Your Blood Pressure
By Gary Strumolo Customer research and societal trends suggest that there’s a strong business case for automakers to explore opportunities in health and wellness. Here’s what we at Ford have learned:...
View ArticleFord’s Farley Wants P2P Sharing and Electric Cars for Urban Mobility
As the urban population soars, city streets are growing increasingly traffic-clogged and difficult to navigate, impeding our ease of transit and, more critically, harming our environment. At our...
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Ford’s Data-Driven CMO on Mobile, Newsrooms, Tesla, and More
Ford’s Farley says mobile tech changes everything for the auto industry. Jim Farley of Ford joined David Kirkpatrick onstage at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson. Farley leads Ford’s drive to connect more...
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Techonomy Contests
We partnered with Ford and Magisto to create a unique contest for people who love their city and want to show off their inner Martin Scorsese. If you already have enough glamor in your life and want...
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How Sharing, RoboCars, and 3D Printing Can Reinvent Industrial Detroit
Detroit skyline illustration via Shutterstock By Bill Coughlin “The age of the industrial city is over, at least in the West, and it will never return,” declared Edward Glaeser in his book “Triumph of...
View ArticleFord’s Don Butler on Connectivity in Cars
How can connectivity make for a better driving experience? At our Techonomy Detroit conference at Wayne State University, Ford’s Don Butler talked about the ways the 111-year-old auto company is...
View ArticleFord’s Ken Washington: Autonomous Vehicles Aren’t About to Drive Off Without Us
Do intelligent machines threaten to not only to steal our jobs, but to rob us of the pleasure of driving? Ford VP of Research and Advanced Engineering Ken Washington says that while “technologies are...
View ArticleFord’s Ken Washington on the Evolution of Mobility
Young people aren’t the only ones who are starting to think in new ways about car ownership and how they get around. According to Ken Washington, VP of research and advanced engineering at Ford, “the...
View ArticlePreparing Ourselves for a Fully-Automated Future
As technology forges ahead, more of our world is becoming automated, increasingly resembling the futuristic settings that were once only the domain of science fiction. This means a significant change...
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