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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific Americans Science Talk posted on March 28th, 2017.

I'm Steve Murski. Lair Greenmeier is our technology editor.

Last month, he found himself in Spain where he filed this automotive update. You'll hear

mention of DARPA, that's the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department

of Defense.

I'm here at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. I'm here at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona with Ken Washington. Can you tell you what your role is at Ford and we can get into some of the cool stuff here?

Sure.

I'm the vice president of research and advanced engineering at Ford.

We were talking about self-driving cars, but I think it's helpful to first define what that is before we get further into the discussion.

Right, and I agree. It's very important to be precise in defining autonomous vehicles, because autonomous vehicles, that term is often used to describe driver assist technologies, which

helps the driver be a better, safer, more enjoyable drive.

And that's not what we mean when we say fully autonomous vehicle, a self-driving vehicle.

We define that as a level four autonomous vehicle that can operate as a

replacement to the human driver. So level four, I mean, I hear that a lot, but I'm hearing it

enough to actually start using it myself. Yes. And it's helpful to distinguish also what level four is.

So level four, it's actually defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers.

And what level four means is that the technology in the vehicle and the vehicle work together

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