As an auto enthusiast for a couple decades plus, I can really appreciate the approach and attitude Bill Ford seems to be reaching to achieve. The inventor and i

As an auto enthusiast for a couple decades plus, I can really appreciate the approach and attitude Bill Ford seems to be reaching to achieve. The inventor and innovator side of me enjoys the often blase notion of "disruption" that comes with SV culture, but I've still got distinct reservations about the general "practical ethics compass" of the approach, to coin a phrase for lack of a better one that I know. Where SV and Auto culture meet in the middle definitely interests me. I guess what I find more appealing about Auto industry culture is the general notion of accountability (give or take) with respect to products. Auto companies are not nimble, should not play 'fast and loose' with regulations like safety, and they have public shareholders as well. This is a different model - one that I honestly believe serves the Auto industry well - because there are perfectly reasonable avenues to take SV-like approaches - it's called R&D, and taking stuff out racing. WRC. BTCC. Le Mans. All sorts of different avenues! This isn't to give Auto companies like Ford a free pass when they make mistakes (Firestone and Ford comes to mind) but rather acknowledge that there's still merit in their approach to creating, manufacturing, and supporting products.