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FORD OPENS NEW SILICON VALLEY RESEARCH CENTER TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CONNECTIVITY, MOBILITY, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Mario Anderson Ford, Ford Motor Company Feb 2, 2015

Ford is opening the Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto to accelerate its development of technologies and experiments in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data Ford forms research alliance with Stanford, delivering Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research Vehicle to university engineers for next phase of testing Dragos Maciuca, an experienced Silicon Valley engineer,(…)

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Ford Connects with Jefferson County Public Schools to Help Make Learning More Relevant & Engaging for Louisville Students

Mario Anderson Ford, Ford Motor Company, Louisville Jan 5, 2015

Jefferson County Public Schools was recently was named a Ford Next Generation Learning community at Southern High School. It’s the 18th community in the United States to earn this designation through the Ford Next Generation Learning initiative. The goal of the program is to help districts and communities in implementing a plan that improves student(…)

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Ford Motor Co. teams with BlackBerry Ltd. for new in-car touch-screen system.

Mario Anderson Ford, Ford Motor Company, Ford SYNC, SYNC Dec 22, 2014

Ford Motor Co hopes to get a fresh start and erase bad memories for some owners when it launches the new version of its in-car, interactive touch-screen system next fall. Ford said Sync 3 will be more intuitive, sport improved voice-recognition software and operate more like a smartphone than the first two generations. Ford is(…)

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Ford and Tweedle launch new Mustang Owner app featuring Mustang trivia, wallpapers and ringtones.

Mario Anderson 2015 Mustang, Android, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Ford Mustang, iOS, Mustang, Mustang App, Mustang Owner App Oct 20, 2014

Love the Pony car? There’s an app for that! Ford and Tweedle launched a new Mustang Owner app featuring Mustang trivia, wallpapers and ringtones. The Mustang Owner app is available on both Android and iOS platforms. Detailed information is provided about the pony car’s features and capabilities. Making use of an augmented reality feature, app(…)

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2014 Henry Ford Technology Award Winners

Mario Anderson Ford, Ford Motor Company, Technology Oct 6, 2014

Remember when taking a road trip required you to have a tangible map or written directions? Where would we be if creativity stopped at the 8-track cassette player, or if no one thought about a GPS navigation system? The question isn’t so much what we did before these luxuries, but rather, where we’re going as(…)

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Mustang Mania Goes Global

Mario Anderson 2015 Ford Mustang, 2015 Mustang, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Ford Mustang, Mustang Sep 10, 2014

When it was first launched 50 years ago, the Ford Mustang was a huge success. Right now, it still is. Ford basically invented the concept of a “muscle car” with the Mustang and today, five decades later, despite intensifying competition, it’s still perceived by many as the leader in its class. It’s common knowledge that(…)

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Parts and Recreation: 3D Printing Brings a New Blueprint to Automotive Prototyping

Mario Anderson 3D Printing, Automotive, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Prototyping Aug 1, 2014

Mike Hammer, reporting for My Ford Magazine, wrote that rapid-prototyping (3-D printing) technology within the Ford Silicon Valley Research Lab is allowing Ford engineers to create workable parts digitally – and almost instantly – right at their desks. “This has completely changed the way we design,” says Dave Evans, an engineer at the Ford Silicon Valley(…)

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FORD TEAMS UP WITH FOUR UNIVERSITIES TO ENGINEER A MORE INTUITIVE VEHICLE

Mario Anderson Ford, Ford Fusion, Ford Motor Company, Fusion, Fusion Hybrid, Hybrid Cars, MIT, University of Michigan Jul 29, 2014

Ford has consistently established itself at the vanguard of automotive technology, often through its alliances with cutting-edge engineering departments at universities around the world. Now, researchers at four universities are tackling the gray area between human and automated driving. “There’s the concept of having a virtual driver,” says Greg Stevens, Ford global manager of Driver(…)

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Speedy and Smart: The 2015 Mustang Offers an Incredible Lineup of Innovative Technologies and Performance Features

Mario Anderson Jun 2, 2014

The Ford 2015 Mustang is on display this week at Computex, one of the world’s largest technology conferences, held in Taiwan. Among the many Ford innovations showcased at the event, Ford will demonstrate the outstanding technology and performance features included in the all-new Mustang model.

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Ford Developing Adaptive Steering Technology to Make Vehicles Easier to Maneuver

Mario Anderson May 30, 2014

Ford is introducing a new generation of steering technology to help improve vehicle maneuverability. According to Ford’s official press release, this new technology “will help make vehicles easier to maneuver at low speeds and in tight spaces. At higher speeds, the new technology will help make the vehicle more agile and fun to drive.”