Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both came to Michigan this week to woo the auto industry vote by promising to rework the trade deals that put U.S. jobs at risk. “Past trade deals have been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that didn’t pan out,” Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, said Thursday in […]
Now, automakers are worried about the costs — not to mention their profitable pickup trucks — and are pushing for a revision. Environmentalists are resisting. President Barack Obama’s most concrete environmental achievement may have come in 2011 when the auto industry agreed to stricter targets for fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. 1. What are […]
Yet the 2017 Cadillac CTS arrives to skepticism in Washington, where Detroit’s dream of cars talking to cars is running into Silicon Valley’s wireless aspirations. General Motors Co. is rolling out a sedan laden with gadgets that track other cars on the road and can automatically brake to avoid collisions, fulfilling a safety vision decades […]
The company said Wednesday it will open a self-driving technology development center in Novi, Michigan, a city about 30 miles from downtown Detroit. Google is expanding efforts to make autonomous cars at a time startups such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Comma.ai, as well as established companies like General Motors Co. are investing in the […]
“I got married, and I wanted to make more money,” Sadak says, but the city was in the throes of recession. Renan Sadak, who has a degree in computer science from his native Iraq, could land only an $11-an-hour job managing a liquor store when he arrived in Detroit seven years ago as a refugee. […]
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