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The Vergecast

Ford Autonomous Vehicles President and CEO Sherif Marakby

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Big car companies like Ford have broken themselves up to enter the market of self-driving cars and compete with Silicon Valley companies like Tesla and Uber. Ford Autonomous Vehicles hopes to become the go-to supplier of autonomous driving software, and have even set the ambitious goal of shipping a self-driving car without a steering wheel or pedals in the next few years. For this week’s interview episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and Verge transportation reporter Sean O’Kane sit down with Ford Autonomous Vehicles President and CEO Sherif Marakby to discuss the past, present, and future of self-driving cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.6

Hey everybody, it's Neilife from The Vergecast here with another interview episode of the show,

0:29.6

A Little Experiment, we're trying that seems to be going really well.

0:32.8

This week, Verge Transportation Reporter Sean Okan and I talked to Sharif Murakbi,

0:37.8

who's the CEO of Ford Autonomous Vehicles. I don't know if you know this, but big car companies

0:42.8

have been breaking themselves up recently to compete with companies like Tesla and Uber.

0:47.5

So Ford has broken itself up into Ford, the car company, and Ford Autonomous Vehicles,

0:52.6

which is basically a Silicon Valley startup for autonomous driving. Obviously they're going to use

0:56.9

Ford cars, but their goal is to be a supplier of autonomous driving software.

1:01.6

We talked to Sharif about how autonomous cars will work, whether they're even going to really

1:06.0

happen and how society is going to change to deal with it. We also talked about what Ford's

1:10.8

going to do, and if they're really going to deliver on his ambitious goal of shipping a car

1:14.8

without a steering wheel or pedals in just a few years, check it out.

1:19.8

Hello, we're here with Sharif Murakbi, the CEO of Ford Autonomous Vehicles. Thanks for joining us.

1:24.9

Thank you. So we have a bunch of questions about Ford. Sean O'Kane, our Transportation

1:29.1

Reporter from the Verde, is going to join me. Hello. Actually ask smart questions. I want to start

1:34.5

with a very dumb question, extremely dumb question. Are autonomous vehicles going to happen? Are

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