Ford invests in Autonomic to make open-source mobility service platform

Ford has taken a stake in Silicon Valley’s Autonomic to be the basis for the automaker’s future mobility efforts.In its investors report last week, Ford said it had made an investment in Palo Alto-based Autonomic Inc. to build a basis for future iterations of mobility services that will use Ford vehicles, such as its Chariot service that employs Transit vans, as part of the company’s plan to move people through cities in every way, according to CEO Jim Hackett.“The platfo