Ford announces plans to deliver driverless cars for ride hailing by 2021

Ford Motor Co. became the world's first automaker to announce hard plans to deliver driverless cars. "We'll have mass-produced, fully autonomous cars on the road in five years," said Raj Nair, head of global product development, at an event Tuesday in Palo Alto, Calif. Ford said the cars would be first used for ride hailing and ride sharing, but no companies were named. A few years after that, the company plans to roll out driverless cars to consumers. All the carmakers, plus Google and maybe Apple, are working on driverless cars, but none has announced firm dates.