Sentences with phrase «many auto executives»

Auto executives emphasize that data - crunching will allow them to build a better driving experience — enabling cars to predict flat tires, find a parking space or charging station, or alert city managers to dangerous intersections where there are frequent accidents.

Zimmer has had plenty of meetings with auto executives over the years, but it was strange to explain his vision of the future and have one respond with «I agree,» he says.

Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.

Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, is a lifelong auto executive, so when he wrote over the weekend that «we are approaching the end of the automotive era,» people paid attention.

Many auto executives and Wall Street analysts expect auto sales to weaken slightly this year compared with 1997 sales.

In Detroit where auto executives marvel at Tesla's stock price rise despite its losses and production problems, quiet cheers over the company's troubles were almost a certainty.

But they are not auto executives.

Canadian auto executive Keith Henry was enjoying a vacation in Florida this week when Donald Trump's Twitter feed caught his immediate attention.

If the Dems pick a candidate that can pick up the votes of the auto executives that live in the Northern parts of this District, the Dems will win this seat.

This wasn't a conspiracy, it was more dull auto executives and entrenched thinking.

Keaton plays Jack Butler, a happily married auto executive and father of three in suburban Detroit.

Among the auto executives who joined him in a show of industry - wide backing for the regulations, there were a few faces missing.

Like most high - level German auto executives, Piech is an engineer by training.

What auto executive contemplated the prototype of this plastic pile, grinned, and pronounced, «I think we're done here!»

But today, dealers, as well as auto executives who will attend the big pow - wow at the Moscone Center, are feeling much better.

He also notes, as do many auto executives, that higher gas taxes would go a long way toward ensuring there's a market for the efficient cars the government is ordering carmakers to build.

If an auto executive loses his job, he takes his severance and finds another job.

This, it seemed, was a return to normalcy in the Motor City, where auto executives are royalty.

Some American auto executives remain optimistic in the face of the latest competition.

International auto executives say they are in no rush to shake up their joint ventures with Chinese carmakers, despite Beijing's promise to loosen limitations on foreign investment.

In the wake of the MeToo movement's explosion and growing awareness about sexual harassment, some auto executives have been taking a new look at the traditional use of often scantily - clad women on display stands at auto shows.

Beyond the baby boomers, safety is increasingly a selling point, particularly among more affluent car buyers, analysts and auto executives said.

We grabbed a camera and pounded the floor of Detroit's COBO Hall during media days to explore the new technology and see the new cars, trucks, crossovers and SUVs as the silk covers were pulled back and the auto executives shared their thoughts on the industry in 2017.

Indeed, auto executives at every launch last week talked about how prices would be kept as lean as possible on all new models because of consumer resistance.

As usual, about 6,000 «automotive journalists» are expected to attend, which means about 5,500 civilians will convince show management that they need to be part of the four - day march from one exhibit to the other, as auto executives strive to convince us that their new product deserves front - page play.

Big Three auto executives are revved up about their new products and the narrowing gap with the Japanese in quality; however, few think 1991 will be a strong year for the industry.

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It could be the Overeaters Anonymous group where she ran into John DeLorean, the disgraced auto executive who had beaten government drug trafficking charges and was at OA because he'd «started eating lots of junk food during his trial» and needed to find «a self - empowering Christian way to lose weight.»

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters)- The debate over the best medium - term solution for cleaner cars looks set to lengthen as auto executives in Japan for the Tokyo Motor Show this week discussed more, not fewer, options for weaning cars off oil.

Auto executives have also suggested the utilities could create a market for recycled but still - powerful lithium - ion battery packs from older electric cars.

Auto executives are reluctant to mention the illegal copying of technology in China, a problem that discouraged Chrysler from even trying to build minivans in China in the 1990s.

Although the auto executives differed on the degree to which they would accept tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles the consensus was that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regime, enacted in 1975, had failed to achieve its purpose of reducing US dependence on foreign oil and reducing domestic petrol consumption.

Founder Henrik Fisker stepped down as CEO, and he was replaced by an auto executive from Chrysler.

That includes coming across as defiant, as Bill Gates did defending Microsoft in the heat of his firm's»90s antitrust battle, or tone deaf, like the auto executives who flew private to D.C. seeking a bailout.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pressure from President Barack Obama to ratify the agreement, while Canada's auto - parts makers and former Research in Motion chief executive Jim Balsillie are among the voices calling on Trudeau to walk away.

Auto industry veteran and former GM executive Bob Lutz recently argued that the die is already cast.

Meanwhile, a key federal advisory board focused on driverless - car technology — a committee comprised of top executives from Apple, Ford, GM, Lyft and other tech and auto giants — has fallen entirely inactive, four sources told Recode.

Based on the number of complaints, Jason Levine, executive director at the Center for Auto Safety, says, «Something is going on.

Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, a harsh critic of NHTSA and the auto industry, believes the new legislation is much neeAuto Safety, a harsh critic of NHTSA and the auto industry, believes the new legislation is much neeauto industry, believes the new legislation is much needed.

«The impact of an auto assembly plant extends beyond its immediate economic impact, and that's why states offer robust incentives,» said Dennis Cuneo, a site - selection consultant and former Toyota executive.

BERLIN, May 3 - Volkswagen is still looking at whether to spin off assets such as motorcycle maker Ducati and transmissions maker Renk, its new chief executive said, as the autos group strives to streamline its operations and become more efficient.

Marchionne, one of the longest - serving chief executives in the auto industry, confirmed on Monday, the opening of the North American International Auto Show, that he is stepping down from his position as CEO next yauto industry, confirmed on Monday, the opening of the North American International Auto Show, that he is stepping down from his position as CEO next yAuto Show, that he is stepping down from his position as CEO next year.

Anna - Marie Baisden, head of autos research at BMI Research, speaks about the labor union reception to Volkswagen's incoming chief executive Herbert Diess.

«The end of car ownership is real, serious, and going to change your world,» Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer told auto - industry executives at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Novemauto - industry executives at the Los Angeles Auto Show in NovemAuto Show in November.

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat - Chrysler, BMW, and just about every other auto company are wading — some cautiously and some with big, headline - grabbing moves — into territory that executives in Detroit and elsewhere not long ago considered a science - fiction fantasy.

SpaceX, the closely held company founded and led by chief executive officer Elon Musk — who also heads the electric auto manufacturer Tesla (tsla)-- is slated to demonstrate the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a larger and more powerful rocket, later this month.

If more executive order are to follow one on steel, there are plenty of targets: Chinese industries that have also been named in WTO disputes include aluminum, auto and solar glass, and car parts.

Joy Nott, executive director of IE Canada, the national association of importers and exporters, remembers when just - in - time manufacturing was something the auto industry was just testing.

The setting is 1,800 miles from company headquarters, where top executives have been scrambling for nearly two years to contain the damage from a sales practices scandal that engulfed its retail bank and spread to auto lending, mortgages and even wealth management.

Other changes have been in the works for months, including the departure soon of Glenn Butt, executive vice-president of automotive whose functions overseeing the auto department had been taken over by the company's head of marketing.