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Mark Fields, chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the preview day at the Paris Motor Show in Paris, France, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014.
Ford CEO Mark Fields thinks we'll have 40 driverless cars within five years, but Ford won't be leading the way. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Fields said that Ford's legacy is in making self-driving technology more affordable and will make components, like automated parking systems and automated highway driving available first.
Fields also said he sees Google as a possible partner. That seems like a good bet: Google has been developing a self-driving car inside its Google X lab for the past few years. Fields, who is delivering a keynote address at this year's 2015 CES, also talked about the newest version of Ford's in-vehicle infotainment system, Sync 3, which features more conversational voice interaction.
