A Look Into The Future Of Autos With Ford Motor's Sheryl Connelly
CHICAGO (CBS) -- When you look at a car you might just see just steel, rubber and leather.
But Sheryl Connelly hopes you see the future.
From the music to food, she tracks trends as Ford Motor Co.'s futurist.
"When you tell people you are a futurist, they put out their palm and say tell me my fortune," she told CBS 2's Vince Gerasole.
Automakers developing cars that can park themselves.
Why?
The first humans to live to be 150 have already been born, they'll want to be mobile but not necessarily drive.
Globally, we are overwhelmed by juggling careers and family, a trend called time poverty.
So, another trend, called easy life, has us looking for smart devices in cars that help us make the most of our time.
For example, you would have time to brush your daughter's hair in a car that drives itself.
For recycle-conscious consumers, Ford is working with Heinz ketchup to turn their unused tomato skins into plastics for their cars, appropriately called waste not want not.
"Companies that want to be an innovator must imagine a future no one else imagined," Connelly said.
