Ford Opens Autonomous Vehicle R&D Center in Tesla Territory

Ford on Thursday announced that it is opening a research center in Palo Alto, California, to accelerate its development of autonomous vehicles and how they will communicate with cars and the infrastructure around them.
Located in Stanford Research Park, the facility will expand the automaker's physical footprint in an already existing office space, and the company has plans to grow it further.
With the new facility, Ford expects to have one of the largest automotive manufacturer research cen