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I agree the systems part is the hard part. The software to monitor and control thousands to millions of automated cars.

Ford has a large learning curve in order to figure out how to do that. It will take a very different workforce to build and manage a software system of that scale.

Google and Uber have been managing a system like that from the beginning, it is in their DNA.

I could see Ford providing the hardware, while a different company deploys and manages the customer facing operation. Demoting Ford to a vendor doesn't sound like such a good thing for Ford though.