El fabricante de automóviles Ford ha confirmado este martes que recortará su plantilla en Europa, con al menos 3.800 despidos, lo que representa el 11% de su plantilla. El 92% de los despidos se concentrará en Alemania y el Reino Unido, aunque impactará también en posiciones administrativas en otros países, como España.
El acuerdo para electrificar la factoría de Ford Almussafes sigue muy lejano, pero los sindicatos valencianos ya tienen sobre la mesa los recortes que les exige la dirección española para que la matriz europea escoja fabricar en la autonomía los dos modelos eléctricos que tiene pendientes de adjudicar.
En las altas jerarquías de Ford han sacado la calculadora y los números no salen. La introducción del mercado eléctrico es mucho más rápida de lo que se había planteado en un principio.
Ford chief executive Mark Fields announced today that his car company is experimenting with ways to solve parking problems in major cities.
Ford is creating experimental apps that allow people to find nearby parking spots and recommendations for the best one to try to get first. There’s also an experiment in social collaboration, where residents in an area can reserve a parking spot in crowded neighborhoods.
“We don’t think these experiments will produce a single solution,” Fields said. But the company wants the ideas to flow. Fields made the announcement as part of a keynote talk at the 2015 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
Ford Motor Company says it will engage in 25 experiments in cities around the world to test new driving models. Most of the experiments involve some form of car sharing.
Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the experiments this morning at the company’s CES keynote.
Ford is giving its cars the ability to spot—and avoid hitting—pedestrians using a combination of radar and camera sensing. The system will appear in Europe next year on Ford’s Mondeo sedan.
Although similar technology is available in some high-end cars, like the Mercedes S-Class, the move from Ford shows how rapidly automation is coming even to modest vehicles. The pedestrian detection that Ford is developing could also prove crucial to fully automated vehicles capable of driving in complex situations—something that remains out of reach.
