Ford looks down the road with 3D printing, self-driving car ZDNet

Self-driving cars have barely hit the road -- and aren't even close to being pitched to consumers yet -- but heavy traffic already appears to be forming. Web cartoonist Matthew Inman loves his Tesla. But like many proud EV owners and proponents, does he even realize his "Magical Space Car" runs on fossil fuels? Following up tech giants like Google and Uber as well as automotive wunderkind Tesla, car industry stalwart Ford is moving full steam ahead with an autonomous vehicle of its own. Announced amid the Michigan-based corporation's fifth annual trend conference "Further with Ford" in Silicon Valley this week, the car maker revealed it is moving its autonomous driving technology research plans upward to a full-scale advanced engineering program.