Ford CEO says the next generation of EVs have a trick up their sleeve to help prevent assembly mistakes
Source: Business Insider ·
Ford is racing to develop its next EVs. CEO Jim Farley told Business Insider their internal computers will make sure they're built right.
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Ford is betting big on its next lineup of EVs. The CEO said it's pulling part of the manufacturing process into the car's brain.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesFord says its next EVs will flag assembly mistakes from inside the car.The system will work on the carmaker's next generation of EVs.It comes as Ford continues to stack recalls. The company says it's turning around quality issues.The computer inside Ford's next generation EVs will have a job to do before customers ever get the keys.During a roundtable interview at Ford's Accelerate conference, CEO Jim Farley said vehicles built on the automaker's coming Universal Electric Vehicle platform, or UEV, will use their onboard computers to verify assembly connections."The vehicle diagnoses itself," he said during the interview, attended by Business Insider. "Most of our plants, with vision systems looking over people's shoulder to make sure they attach something right? We don't have that in UEV."Ford isn't doing away with factory cameras and…