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...The modern era can be dated back to Google’s self-driving project, now Waymo, which began in 2009....
...Cruise opens to public in SanFranCruise, General Motors’ driverless car unit, is opening its robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco, a development that prompted another $1.35bn investment from the...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 22. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The only business book I’ve ever read that made me cry was a winner in 2017 about families in Wisconsin responding to the cataclysm of the closure of the General Motors plant there, which would be one of...
...“The car is modern, and even the mode of distribution is modern.”...
...Courts are simply behind the times when it comes to tackling modern debt disputes....
...On a bitterly cold March morning at the Silverstone motor-racing circuit, a racket emanates from a hangar-sized garage....
...General Motors, 19. You get the picture....
...“Imagine it for them, the players, coaches . . . they see the finish line, and this pandemic is stopping everything,” says Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani....
...Goldstein meticulously reported how a Wisconsin town responded to the closure of a General Motors plant....
...He forecasts it could still be worth a lofty $45bn — close to where General Motors trades today....
...Dubbed “NUMMI” — New United Motor Manufacturing Inc — the joint venture achieved defect rates and quality ratings unheard of at GM’s other plants....
...The list of companies that run teams reads like a Who’s Who of Japan Inc: The likes of Suntory Holdings, Toyota Motor, Canon, Panasonic, Honda Motor and Toshiba are represented in the top flight, but the...
...Of those, over 10,000 have come from just one company: Arrowhead Engineered Products Inc. of Blaine, Minnesota....
...Perhaps the most poignant illustration of this is found in the birthplace of mass production: the Ford Motor Company....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on September 13, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Among them were three automobile companies — General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford; and three steel companies, Bethlehem, Inland, and US Steel. Where are they now?...
...At Nissan, for instance, minutes of downtime can be the difference between a modern production line making a profit or loss that day....
...These days, wagon sales are still a crude index of the health of the modern US economy....
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...Whether the system at large can update its services to the standards modern consumers demand and still cover its costs without having to reduce or protect supply is yet to be determined....
...“Almost every aspect of our modern lives is dependent on satellite infrastructure and this makes us very dependent on other countries’ space infrastructure.”...
...The writers are the FT’s North America correspondent and motor industry correspondent...
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...The city was estimated in May to have about 8m motor vehicles, up 5.8 per cent from a year earlier, including 600,000 four-wheelers and 7.4m bikes....
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