Ford partners with Stanford and MIT for autonomous car research

Ford will team with MIT and Stanford to try to figure out how to give self-driving, or automated, cars “intuition”. The Stanford research will examine how a car’s LiDAR infrared sensors could see around obstacles. Similar to the way a bat or dolphin uses sound waves, LiDAR bounces infrared light off of objects up to 200 feet away and then uses the data to create a real-time 3-D map of the vicinity.