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Industry executives who not long ago stubbornly fought the federal imposition of such now widely accepted technical items as seat belts, air bags and emission controls are taking the lead in pushing high-tech innovation. The auto industry and its suppliers are spending $24 billion a year between them in advanced engineering and electronic research-more than a quarter of the nation's entire annual $90 billion research-and-development expenditures...
...dumb about smart devices. "For a nation that can't program its vcrs," he says, "I wouldn't want to imagine a future where people will be expected to operate a 4,000-lb. smart car propelling them down the highway at 65 m.p.h." Besides, says Yates, "the auto is the last bastion of personal freedom in the U.S. It promises enormous flexibility. This smacks of Big Brotherism. I don't want 'HAL' inside my dashboard telling me where...
Self-diagnosis becomes easier for an auto that has multiplex central wiring, just introduced on the 1995 Continental. Instead of the bunches of brightly colored wires visible under the hoods of most contemporary cars, the Continental has what Ford's Ressler describes as a "central nervous system, one continuous-wire system making a complete circle with a separate address for every function. It means fewer wires, fewer connecting points and fewer things that can go wrong...
...filters, cruise controls and other parts for the industry's Big Three. "Today's automobile factory is living off day-to-day, shift-to-shift inventories," says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "One walkout can shut down everyone else." Negotiations between the two sides continued today. The United Auto Workers union predicts that if the walkout continues, dozens of GM factories nationwide will halt production within the week...
Workers in a General Motors auto parts plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike this morning, after making no progress in a 25-hour negotiating session that lasted all night Tuesday. More than 6,800 union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving...