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...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...Yet it is none other than Ford, the company that will forever be associated with the city, which has now stepped in to save it....
...The technology runs on augmented reality headsets and is already being used by the Ford Motor Company....
...Back then, the worry was: would Ford, General Motors and Chrysler survive the financial crisis. Today, survival is again at issue....
...The company is also understood to be looking for outside funding to help it develop self-driving cars after rival General Motors recently announced an investment of $2.25bn from SoftBank’s Saudi-backed Vision...
...One of his most intriguing arguments compares the power of the US tech giants today and the motor industry in the 1950s....
...There was a high-stakes courtroom battle with Waymo over self-driving technology....
...But Brian Soublet, deputy director and chief counsel at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, had another worry. Yes, there are potential safety benefits....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company. This two-tier system may just about satisfy the letter of the UK’s Corporate Governance Code....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The film’s cynical message, teased or possibly tortured from George V....
...Among Ford’s rivals, General Motors is developing the EN-V, an electric, self-piloting two-seat microvehicle that it showcased at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010....
...In China, General Motors is preparing to deploy the EN-V, its tiny two-seat, self-driving experimental car, in the country’s largest “eco-city” on the outskirts of Tianjin....
...In 2004, Ford, the motor company, sponsored her book The Sweetest Taboo – a Ford Fiesta was integral to the plot....
...Sales at General Motors and Ford fell 8.2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively but beat estimates and GM raised its industry sales forecast for the year, according to the FT....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Ford’s new Focus midsized car, for example, will have 80 per cent of parts in common in its different versions around the world....
...According to Ford Motor, the industry on the continent still has about a third more capacity than it needs....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...Rival carmaking bosses hailing from other sectors – such as Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne and Ford Motor’s Alan Mulally – are credited with bringing fresh eyes to challenge old orthodoxies and forge new business...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Wagoner et al could live with this if it was all the Cee’d had going for it....
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