Ford Motor’s newly created business unit to rapidly develop in-car technologies doesn’t even have a name yet — it’s been using the working title “Connected Services” as other names are researched — but there’s been no lack of speed, or direction, on the new 40-person team. The group, a compilation of Ford’s most talented leaders in engineering, marketing and the like, already has filed for more than a dozen patents, said Doug VanDagens, director of the new group.
