More automated driving features will come to new Ford and Lincoln models as the automaker triples its investment in developing new driver assist features, CEO Mark Fields said Monday.

Without delving into any specifics, Fields said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the company was finalizing a traffic jam assist and a “fully active” auto-parking system that can shift, brake, and steer into a spot. The traffic jam assist is an auto pilot that combines the adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist for a few seconds of no-hands driving. Currently, no Ford or Lincoln offers these kind of capabilities. Fields offered no timeline on when he would unveil them.
On the fully autonomous front, Ford claims it has the largest fleet of automaker-owned test cars, with 30 Fusion Hybrid sedans whirring around Michigan, Arizona, and California (up from 10 last year). Ford says it expects to offer production cars with fully-autonomous features within four years. It would roll them out first in “climates that support optimal sensor performance and in areas that have been mapped in high resolution 3D.” In other words, California.
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