Launch a fully autonomous vehicle in commercial operation
Not delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 14 Sep 2016
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Checked
- 17 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Ford intends to have a high-volume, fully autonomous SAE-defined level 4-capable vehicle in commercial operation in 2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The provided SEC filings do not contain evidence that Ford launched a fully autonomous, level 4-capable vehicle in commercial operation by the end of 2021.
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A Ford Motor Company 10-K filed 2023-02-03
“The $1 billion EBIT loss reflected our strategic investments in 2021 as we continued to expand our capabilities in autonomous vehicles and mobility businesses.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Checked 17 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Commercial launch
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Launch
- Deliverable
- Autonomous SAE-defined level 4-capable vehicle
- Language
- Aspirational (“aims”, “intends”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Regulatory
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.
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