Ford CEO sees parcel delivery as important application for fully autonomous vehicles

Ford CEO Mark Fields has revealed that the global automotive manufacturer has plans to launch a fleet of driverless vehicles operating in a ride-hailing service by 2021- and he believes that parcel delivery could be one of the key commercial applications for the first fully autonomous vehicles. Speaking to the technology news website Recode, Field reported said that the self-driving technology will probably be too expensive for individual ownership vehicles, at least for the first half of 2020s.

Consequently, Field speculated: “The first application of the fully autonomous vehicle will be commercial applications, whether it’s ride-hailing or parcel delivery.”