Ford Motor Co. has wooed back a senior engineer who left the auto maker to develop autonomous vehicles at Uber Technologies Inc., underscoring the Motor City auto maker’s determination under new leadership to wrest back the lead from Silicon Valley on new technologies. Sherif Marakby returns to Ford as vice president responsible for the company’s self-driving and electric-car businesses, the auto maker said Thursday as it announced...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 25, 2017 13:40 UTC