It’s great news that Seeing Machines, working with its Tier 1 partner Autoliv, has won a A$50m contract to supply its Fovio DMS system to Ford. Even better is that it’s on its new chip.

Once again my sources have been proven to be correct. Avid readers will note that in a previous blog, entitled: ‘Seeing Machines set to win 75% of the global DMS market’ the Ford win was predicted.

Back then, on 16th March, I wrote: “I’m being told that Fovio will soon be contracted to Ford, Volvo and Audi. (That’s in addition to General Motors, Mercedes and BMW). Moreover, those same sources are telling me that by the end of this calendar year Toyota will definitely be committed to using it and, most likely, Honda.”

The document containing this latest OEM win was published as part of Autoliv’s Investor Day presentation and is here: (Note that Veoneer is Autoliv’s active safety division that will soon be spun-off).

The clues are on page 13 and 17, in which it is revealed that in Q2 2018 Veoneer won a contract with a major global North American OEM for a DMS.

A spokesperson from Autoliv told Safestocks: “We cannot confirm the OEM name, but I can confirm that we will be working with our partner Seeing Machines for this contract.”

That the North American OEM is Ford is beyond argument. Seeing Machines already works with General Motors, Ford is also an important client of Autoliv. Moreover, when questioned Ford did not deny the contract win had taken place. A spokesman said: “Unfortunately, all I can tell you is that we do not discuss our contractual  arrangements with our suppliers.”

The writer holds shares in Seeing Machines.