Ford CEO Jim Farley said Chinese cars have “far superior” technology, lower costs and great quality.
“Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car,” Farley said, referring to two of China’s tech giants. “You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you like.”
It’s hard to express just how much I don’t want that.
And how inconfortable it makes that other people think this is desirable, especially people in positions of power.
Same. It’s impossible to communicate without screaming, and maybe lighting my clothes on fire.
Help. I’m convulsing.
“You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you like.”
If that’s not a cyberpunk privacy nightmare, I don’t know what is.
I’m so glad the Slate truck is so simply made it can’t even support a SIM card. It’s the one modern car that’s just a car.
Oh man. I didn’t know it existed, and now I know it still doesn’t. 🙁
So basically Ford is admitting “We really have to compete again, and make GOOD products that people actually WANT. Nobody here remembers how to do that, so we’re reverse-engineering products from China.”
Great job!
You should read the article.
That’s literally what the article says
Farley said he brings his whole leadership team on his trips to the country, where they drive as many of the latest cars that they can.
“Then we pick the four or five that we love and then we put them on a plane and fly them to Detroit. And then we drive the crap out of them, and then we take them apart and we put them back together,” he said.I did
Imagine losing to the Chinese despite all of the state aid, NAFTA, tax code and other policies being made for your industry.
American corpos got too greedy… Too much grifting… Useless “Leadership”
Don’t worry they’re too big to fail, they’ll just get more handouts from the government. Like banning Chinese EVa
And remember kids, protectionism is bad (except for when we do it).
I mean its not like Chinese car companies got there without significant help from their government either.
Correct but the Chinese are winning, we got dicks in our hands and nothing else to show besides national debt at 100k per head
We started in stronger position too…
Where did all the money go?!?
Don’t forget about cheap labor over there, economies of scale with the large Chinese market, and with a very different regulatory environment. The American auto industry has an uphill battle ahead of them.
Not to excuse the lack of innovation here, I personally blame the trend of wealth extraction for executive pay and shareholder returns at the expense of long term thinking and reduced R&D spending.
Oh 100% i agree. And we know where the money went. Just look at how many more billionaires there are these days
And that’s why they will never be available in North America.
