Ford equips next generation electric vehicles with self-diagnostic assembly verification

Ford CEO Jim Farley has announced that the company's next electric vehicles will check their own internal connections during assembly. After the painting stage, the car's onboard computer will turn on and look for any wiring errors. Workers will then receive an alert if something is wrong. This replaces the older method of checking quality separately, away from the production line. Ford has also been using machine learning scanners at its factories since 2024 to spot misaligned parts. A small team in California developed this new approach because Ford's existing computer systems were too old to support it. The company has spent two billion dollars on new facilities and has redesigned its assembly process, which had not changed in over 120 years.