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These Are the Craziest Fortune 500 Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of
You probably don't think much about it when you see a Ford Fusion driving down the street. But when 59-year-old James Dunham sees that same car, he gets emotional. The master clay modeler at Ford spent...
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GM CEO Mary Barra Predicts U.S. Auto Sales Will Maintain Record Pace
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra is bullish about U.S. car sales. She said in an interview with CNBC that the auto industry this year can match the record of 17.5 million vehicles sold in...
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Apartheid Claims Against IBM and Ford
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a group of black South Africans seeking to revive human rights litigation aiming to hold Ford Motor and IBM liable for allegedly conducting...
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Fiat Chrysler to Phase Out Air Bag Inflators Subject to Recall
(Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler said on Tuesday it will halt the use of a Takata air bag inflator that will be subject to a future recall and will notify buyers of its 2016 Jeep Wrangler, the only vehicle...
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The Deal That Was a Turning Point for the Self-Driving Car Industry
Just a few years ago, the idea of self-driving cars felt like a sci-fi fantasy, especially to auto executives in Detroit. But thanks to increasingly cheap sensors, the rise of powerful machine-learning...
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Apple Has Enough Cash to Buy the Big Three Car Companies
It makes sense that ride-hailing app Uber got started when the American auto industry was distracted. In 2009, when Uber was founded, the U.S. economy was tanking and U.S. automakers were on the brink...
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Safety Regulators Are Investigating Ford Explorers for Possible Exhaust Leaks
Safety officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have opened an investigation into possible exposure to carbon monoxide in recent models of the Ford Motor Co. f Explorer SUVs,...
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Why Ford Motor Is Investing in 3D Mapping Startup Civil Maps
Ford Motor Co. is among a group of investors putting seed money into 3D mapping startup Civil Maps as the automaker looks for new ways to push forward the development of self-driving cars. The $6.6...
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Ford Is Teaming Up With Jose Cuervo To Make Car Parts
It’s no Margarita, but Ford and Jose Cuervo have a new mix in the works. The automaker and spirits maker have teamed up to see if agave byproduct left over after tequila is made could be used to...
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Ford and Nissan Explain the Challenges of Making Self-Driving Cars
In the future, self-driving cars approaching busy distracted pedestrians crossing the street will stop, flash lights, and show digital messages on their windshields that tell that it’s safe to walk in...
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Michigan Is On Track to Build Another Self-Driving Car Testing Center
Willow Run, where Ford built the B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II and General Motors made more than 5 million vehicle transmissions, is now on track to become a test bed for autonomous cars. A...
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Apple CarPlay, Android Auto Coming to All New Ford Vehicles
Ford says all of its 2017 model-year cars, trucks, and SUVS will come with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, two rival software services that let the driver or passengers bring the functions of their...
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How Ford and MIT’s Electric Shuttle Experiment Could Improve Ride-Hailing
Ford Motor is unleashing electric vehicles onto the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. Students and faculty will be able hail these cars via mobile app in order to shuttle them to and from...
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Here’s Why Shares of Ford Are Tumbling Today
Ford Motor f reported weaker-than-expected profit in the second quarter, and said its full-year earnings forecast was at risk with U.S. auto sales expected to fall in the second half, sending shares...
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Don’t Expect Auto Sales to Beat Last Year’s Record
U.S. July auto sales likely rose 2.4 percent from a year earlier, but full-year sales will not match last year’s record, forecasters J.D. Power and LMC Automotive said on Friday. LMC now expects that...
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This Company Want to Sell You Cars In Virtual Reality
It used to be that anyone interested in buying a used car would have to visit a dealership and chum it up with insistent salespeople. With the advent of virtual reality, however, it may not be long...
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Ford Is Recalling 830,000 Cars For Faulty Door Latches
Ford Motor f said it was recalling about 830,000 vehicles in North America to replace side-door latches that could unlatch while driving. The automaker said it had identified one reported accident and...
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Start Your Car From Inside Your Home Using Amazon’s Alexa
Owners of Hyundai’s Genesis luxury cars will be able to turn on the engines from inside their homes using Amazon’s home digital assistant Alexa. Genesis, the luxury division of Hyundai, announced...
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Ford Is Recalling 91,000 Vehicles in North America for Fuel Pump Problems
Ford Motor said on Wednesday it was recalling about 91,000 vehicles in North America to replace faulty fuel-pump parts that could potentially cause a car to stall without warning. Ford said it would...
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Why Tesla’s New Battery Pack Is Important
Tesla Motors announced a breakthrough on Tuesday that was the stuff of energy nerds: a new battery pack for its performance cars that packed more energy into it. The not-so-geeky result of that new 100...
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