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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
New Study Reveals Automotive Program Managers Must Be Superheroes
In the 2009 documentary Waiting For Superman, a study was cited where 120 million skilled jobs were projected for the growing U.S. market by 2020 with only 50 million skilled workers available. Although the powerful movie’s underlying message was that the American, public educational system is broke...
Monday, November 8, 2021
New “Pink Tax” Study Shows Women Pay Upwards Of $7,800 More For Car Ownership
Some informed readers might have been rejoicing in recent years that the gender gap in pay has generally been shrinking, albeit not quickly enough. In 1869, women were paid 50% of their male counterparts for doing the same job (a.k.a, “controlled gender gap”), in the mid 1960’s it increased due to t...
Monday, November 8, 2021
Automotive Is Hoping That Infrastructure Can Be Sexy This Time
The Harvard Business Review article Fixing U.S. Politics cites several key conclusions based upon political theories, empirical studies and practical experience, which include 1) the heavily partisan system is broken, 2) people incorrectly think of it as public institution based upon high-minded pri...
Monday, November 8, 2021
The Unforeseen Way Connected Cars Are Keeping Rideshare Drivers Safer
We were always told connected cars would save our lives and change the way we do business, but it’s doubtful anyone foresaw this.
Monday, November 8, 2021
A Government’s Struggle: How Hands-Off To Regulate Handsfree Vehicles
Per Charles Dickens’ 1859 classic A Tale of Two Cities, our best-of-time-worst-of-times society seems to fit the second, less-famous ironic statement: “… it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ….” And maybe in no better arena is that dichotomy obvious than with the technological wiz...
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Emerging Tech For Autonomous Vehicles: Thermal Stereo Sensing
Over the past five years, there have been a series of high-profile cases of vehicles misinterpreting the driving environment while using Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS). Most recently in July, algorithms inside of Tesla’s TSLA +1.4% Full Self-Driving (FSD) system-initiated slowdowns for th...