<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you Cornelius for both of these emails this morning. This is very interesting information! Keep up the good work.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Everette Bacon, President<div>National Federation of the blind of Utah</div><div>www.nfbutah.org</div><div>801 Dash 631 Dash 8108</div><div><br></div><div>“ you can live the life you want, blindness does not hold you back!”</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 22, 2021, at 2:41 AM, Cornelius Butler via AutonomousVehicles <autonomousvehicles@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hi Fellow Committee Members,<br>I wanted to post some news items about what's going on in the self driving car world. Ford in a partnership with Argo A.I. and Lyft are launching a self driving program. I'm providing the link to the article and the text of the article below:<br><br>Article Link:<br><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/21/ford-and-argo-ai-to-launch-self-driving-cars-with-lyft-by-end-of-year.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/21/ford-and-argo-ai-to-launch-self-driving-cars-with-lyft-by-end-of-year.html</a><br><br>Article Text:<br><br>Ford and Argo AI to launch self-driving cars with Lyft by the end of the year<br><br>Ford will launch an autonomous vehicle fleet with Lyft and Argo AI by the end of the year, the companies announced Wednesday.<br><br>Self-driving rides with safety drivers will begin this year in Miami. The companies said they plan to expand to Austin, Texas, in 2022 and roll out about 1,000 self-driving cars in multiple markets within five years.<br><br>The partnership comes as ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft ditch their own in-house systems and instead look to outside partners for self-driving technology. Lyft announced plans in April to sell its autonomous vehicle unit to a subsidiary of Toyota for $550 million. In December, Uber sold its self-driving unit to start-up Aurora — which is backed by Hyundai and Amazon — amid safety concerns and extreme costs.<br><br>“Each company brings the scale, knowledge and capability in their area of expertise that is necessary to make autonomous ride-hailing a business reality,” said Lyft co-founder and CEO Logan Green.<br><br>As part of the agreement, Lyft will receive 2.5% common equity of Argo AI, the Ford and Volkswagen-backed autonomous vehicle start-up that’s reportedly preparing to go public as soon as this year.<br><br>The race to deploy self-driving vehicles is heating up nationwide. General Motors CEO Mary Barra said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that she expects to offer consumers autonomous vehicles this decade. Volkswagen is planning a self-driving microbus with Argo AI by 2025, while Ford said in February it plans to invest $29 billion in autonomous and electric vehicles through 2025.<br><br>Ford and Argo AI have been testing fleets nationwide in Austin; Detroit; Miami; Palo Alto, California; Pittsburgh; and Washington, D.C.<br>watch now<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Cornelius Butler<br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">President</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Butler New Media, LLC</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">"Creating A More Accessible World"</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.butlernewmedia.com" target="_blank">http://www.butlernewmedia.com</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">email: <a href="mailto:corn@butlernewmedia.com" target="_blank">corn@butlernewmedia.com</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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