In Brief Uber will soon use autonomous vehicles to transport passengers. The company’s CEO said the first self-driving cars will hit the road within the next 18 months. Autonomous Vehicles Uber’s long-term goal for it ride-hailing service is to phase out human drivers in favor of wholly autonomous vehicles. Now, the company’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has… Continue reading The First Driverless Uber Could Hit the Road as Soon as Next Year
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100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship
100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship 2018-01-24 State-of-the-art equipment and options Moderate running costs Marketplace popularity matched by media success Rüsselsheim. Less than one year after the start of sales, Opel has already taken more than 100,000 orders for the new Insignia from all over Europe. Manufactured at the Rüsselsheim plant in… Continue reading 100,000 Orders Already Taken for New Opel Insignia Flagship
The merger of the car-sharing daughters will come soon
BMW and Daimler are advancing in the proposed merger of their car sharing services, according to a newspaper report. The brands Drive Now and Car2Go should be preserved. Car2Go Smart Tuesday, 23.01.2018 18:13 clock BMW and Daimler its subsidiaries Drive Now and Car2Go are looking for information fromFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“The negotiations are on the home… Continue reading The merger of the car-sharing daughters will come soon
SEAT to recruit 115 more employees at the Martorell plant
SEAT is going to hire 115 new employees to boost production at the Martorell factory. These workers currently have an employment agency contract and will be joining SEAT beginning on February 5th with an open-ended contract. The integration of these 115 new recruits will build on the 150 who joined the company on 8 January… Continue reading SEAT to recruit 115 more employees at the Martorell plant
Autoliv concludes strategic review and prepares for spin-off of its Electronics segment
Tue, Dec 12, 2017 08:30 CET (Stockholm, Sweden, December 12, 2017) – Autoliv, Inc. (NYSE: ALV and SSE: ALIVsdb), the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, today announced that its Board of Directors has concluded its strategic review and decided to prepare for a spin-off of its Electronics business segment, creating a new, independent publicly… Continue reading Autoliv concludes strategic review and prepares for spin-off of its Electronics segment
Ford UAW workers will get $7,500 profit-sharing checks
But low to moderate gas prices have propelled robust sales of large pickup trucks such as the 2016 Ford F-150 pickup that improved its fuel economy from the prior generation by using aluminum body panels. (Photo: Ford Motor Company) Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday afternoon that its year-end earnings were down slightly from analyst projections due… Continue reading Ford UAW workers will get $7,500 profit-sharing checks
Alphabet Launches New Company Focused on Cybersecurity Services
Google has a new sister: Parent company Alphabet Inc. announced on Wednesday the formation of a new subsidiary company, called Chronicle, focused on cybersecurity. Chronicle was formed in 2016 inside of X, Alphabet’s experimental lab that has produced its driverless car effort, Waymo, and projects on drones, internet connectivity and the Google Glass headset. Stephen… Continue reading Alphabet Launches New Company Focused on Cybersecurity Services
Faraday Future’s HR head resigns as cultural rift in the workforce deepens
Troubled EV startup Faraday Future scrounged up new funding at the end of 2017, and even made a surreptitious appearance at CES, wooing CNET and a few paid YouTube influencers with the intoxicating speed of its electric car. But turmoil still exists inside the company, and the latest casualty is company’s head of HR, Crystal… Continue reading Faraday Future’s HR head resigns as cultural rift in the workforce deepens
Micello to join the HERE team: Together, we’ll map everything
How awesome it would be to have of searchable, digital, user-friendly maps to navigate large indoor spaces. Creating those maps efficiently… not quite as easy. We’re thrilled to be acquiring Micello to continue building premier-quality indoor maps and location-based services for everyone. Only 10 years ago, while Micello CEO Ankit Agarwal was trying to find… Continue reading Micello to join the HERE team: Together, we’ll map everything
Ford to award profit-sharing checks of $7,500
The 2018 Ford Expedition SUV goes through the assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant October 27, 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: Bill Pugliano / Getty Images) Dearborn — Ford Motor Co. will give more than 54,000 United Auto Workers hourly employees profit-sharing checks of about $7,500 this year, the company said Wednesday. The… Continue reading Ford to award profit-sharing checks of $7,500