After investing six years and big money to completely revitalize the Michigan Central Station site in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Ford has been working to fill that building with all sorts of mobility-focused companies – in addition to its own Model e EV division. One of them is Newlab, a multi-disciplinary technology center that serves as a hardware-focused shared workspace, research lab, and hatchery for socially-oriented tech manufacturing. This collaboration aims to tackle complex transportation problems related to connectivity, autonomy, and electrification. Recently, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon stopped by to pitch his own idea.
As Ford Authority previously reported, Fallon has been in Detroit for a special taping of the show, and in this particular clip, he swings by Michigan Central Station to visit Newlab and present them with his idea. That is for the “sled shot,” which is much like a slingshot, using two stakes that can be placed in the ground with a band attached to each. From there, one could use this apparatus to sling themselves ahead at high speed while sitting on a sled.
Fallon proceeds to demonstrate how the sled shot would work, but needless to say, it’s pretty unimpressive – he doesn’t go far, and winds up falling off the sled. It’s about as useful as a fake new Ford Bronco “feature” that Fallon and Ford CEO Jim Farley recently revealed – “perm mode,” which can be selected using the gear shift lever, and as one might assume, gives the SUV’s occupants an instant hair makeover.
Ford and Fallon have teamed up on multiple occasions in the past, including back in December 2023, when The Tonight Show aired a skit showing how the 2024 Ford F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid with Pro Power Onboard could potentially save Christmas when the power goes out. This past March, the show also ran another skit centered around Ford Mobile Service, humorously demonstrating how convenient it can be, and Fallon was also among the first to test out the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning.
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Something you’d see at “Day Care”…not from a group tasked with tackling complex transportation problems.
Sometimes the most complex problems can be boiled down to simple solutions...just ask Trump he does it all the time.
Talk about non value added 🙄. Nice to see people are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for such nonsense and Ford is supporting it when they have much bigger issues to resolve- such as building a vehicle that does not have to be recalled a dozen times.