Launch the first purpose-built autonomous vehicle
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
- 15 Nov 2018
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Checked
- 17 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“FORD WILL LAUNCH ITS FIRST Purpose-built AV for Flexible to serve scale launch in 2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The provided SEC filings do not indicate that Ford launched a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in 2021; instead, they describe ongoing development costs and investments in autonomous vehicle technology and Argo AI.
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A Ford Motor Company 10-K filed 2022-02-04
“beginning in 2021, the Mobility segment primarily includes development costs for Ford’s autonomous vehicles and related businesses, Ford’s equity ownership in Argo AI (a developer of autonomous driving systems)” ✓ confirmed on the page
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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
Market reaction: the shares moved -5.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (2 Feb 2023 to 7 Feb 2023). What this measures
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
- purpose-built autonomous vehicle
- Language
- Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
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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