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After the first quarter of the year is over, many dealers nationwide note that new vehicles sales stagnated and this makes them search for steps to protect profits in case the market slows or slides.The 2008-09 recession taught a lot of things the car dealing companies, and it is hard to imagine that people didn't become really knowledgeable during that time on what to do and how to adjust when downturns take place. After Mike Jackson, AutoNation Inc. CEO, saw new-vehicle sales slowing at AutoNation's 254 stores in the fourth quarter of 2015, he warned of a sa...
Many of the autonomous driving enthusiasts are racing to bring self-driving cars to market. However there are no less engineering scientists who speak about the risks and the immaturity of the self-driving technologies at the moment. This is Missy Cummings' opinion, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment." As a professor, Cummings is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study of how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars. As on...
The modern auto industry races toward a driverless future and the companies developing autonomous cars are rushing the technology to market. But robotics and human interaction experts urgie automakers and regulators to pump the brakes.The main problem is that the production autonomous cars are brought to the market with limited technology demonstrations rather than rigorous testing in extreme operating conditions. Some 275 million miles of fatality-free autonomous car testing is needed to ensure the safe operation of these vehicles on public roads. The m...
The biggest U.S. carmaker General Motors raised its 2016 earnings outlook on Jan. 13 Wednesday as it follows up a banner year of U.S. sales with major product launches and touted the benefits of hard-won efficiencies.General Motors has put together a respectable string of sales strategies: 28 consecutive months of growth in commercial vehicle sales to companies.As GM pulls back from less-profitable sales to rental agencies, the company has channeled much of those resources into the more-lucrative business of selling pickups, vans and Chevrolet Malibus and Equinoxes to contractors, landscapers ...
The Ford Motor company had created a new subsidiary Smart Mobility LLC devoted to advance transportation technologies and business models involving ride-sharing services, autonomous cars and vehicle connectivity. It will collaborate with other technology companies and startups to develop new products. Jim Hackett, former Steelcase vice chairman and CEO, will leave Ford's board of directors to become chairman of the new mobility-services subsidiary.It will be seeking technology partners in Silicon Valley and building on work already under way at Ford, according to a company news relea...
