Ford’s chairman said China should take steps against traffic congestion as its cities become increasingly crowded.
An estimated 350 million people will move into Chinese cities in the next two decades, threatening to worsen air quality and traffic, Bill Ford, executive chairman and great- grandson of the automaker’s founder, said in Shanghai on Wednesday. To avoid gridlock in its roads, China should facilitate the adoption of electric cars and embrace new technologies that help motorists find parking spots and avoid traffic, he said. “Unless we change something, we’re going to run into a huge problem of moving people in the major cities around the world, particularly in China,” said Ford.
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