This effort will double Ford’s current mobile-connectivity program.Just in February, Ford announced a $1 billion investment in Argo AI, a startup consisting of engineers from Uber’s and Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle programs. The connected vehicle battle is definitely heating up. Shortly after Tesla’s ugly breakup with Mobileye, Intel has made a $15.3 billion acquisition of the vision-based driver assistance systems maker, seeking new growth avenues. With auto giants like Ford participating in the development, we can bet that rising “tide” of self-driving cars will raise all boats, or cars, rather.