Gadgetory

okay here's a new ford edge concept what I like about it is it doesn't look too concept they're telling us here this is kind of where production is going to go for real now what you can't see here until we look in the cabin is some new technologies for autonomy what this car will have an advanced technology for self parking beyond today today you have to work the pedals while the car works the wheel and does all the sensing in the future not too long from now they think this carl park itself including operating accelerator brakes steering and sensing you might not even be in the car you might just push a button on your phone and say go park yourself the next thing is collision avoidance and innovation there where the car will do more than just break to avoid an impact ahead it may also steer to veer around it one more thing if you look at the steering wheel there when that's in production this may be a high variable ratio gearbox where the ratio is so high that even a u-turn or parking requires only a partial turn of the wheel no more spinning it round and round like in the old days aka today now Ford's envisioning nuts there's lots of screens but big screens you see some tablets here in the back and also a center tablet hooked up there in the center console up front sizes will be getting larger pushing around 10 inches or so and you can bet that myford touch will be heavily revised by then as well it's been a bit of a thorn on the side now with all this cabin tech and all this new styling tells you is that they're pushing a premium message in this sector it's not the only car company doing that but they also want this to be a global cars but a big deal during Alan Mulally's Ford is to build one car for the world the idea here is this guy would roll out with minimal changes to the u.s. to China maybe to the Russian market everywhere so they're not building so many versions and therefore can focus on putting more innovation in there and getting a return on