Free eBook: Turbocharge Your Fleet Safety Program
Just launched by eDriving, the Using Telematics and Driver Scoring To Understand and Change Driver Behavior eBook explains exactly what behaviors can be measured by telematics – including driver distraction – and discusses the advantages of a driver scoring system.
It also delves into what a consistently low driver score tells you and explores how company culture can affect driver score.
Most importantly it provides techniques for organizations to help drivers improve their scores by using proven methods of improving driver behavior.
Tesla Is Challenging Hackers To Crack its Car With $1 Million On The Line
Tesla has been investing more in its cybersecurity over the last few years, and now it is returning to Pwn2Own to challenge hackers to crack its cars with ~$1 million on the line and a few Model 3 vehicles.
It offered a Model 3 to whoever manages to find and exploit certain vulnerabilities in the vehicle’s system. A hacking duo targeted the infotainment system on the Tesla Model 3 and used “a JIT bug in the renderer” to manage to take control of the system. They left with a brand new Model 3.
These types of hacking competitions with white-hat hackers enable Tesla to test and improve its security systems, which are becoming increasingly important in cars as they are becoming more like computers on wheels.
Read the article at Electrek.
Sono Motors Extends Community Funding Campaign
photo credit Sono Motors GmbH
The German mobility provider Sono Motors is extending the company's current Community Funding Campaign until January 20, 2020.
In a two-day voting among Sion reservation holders, nearly 94 percent of the supporters decided to extend the campaign beyond December 30, 2019. Within four weeks, 32.5 million euros had already gone into the first community funding initiative of this kind. Of this amount, 28 percent is accounted for by new reservations and around 68 percent by 4,056 supporters, who have increased the down payment for their existing reservations. Of these, 746 supporters have already paid the full price of the Sion.
As of today, the campaign to further fund the Sion has already generated 33.2 million euros and is thus already one of the largest community funding initiatives in Europe. The original campaign goal of 50 million euros will be maintained.
All campaign figures will be displayed daily on sonomotors.com from January 03, 2020.
Does Your Organization Need a Chief Disruption Officer?
Editor's note: This Disruptive Leadership article originally appeared Fleet Management Weekly in July 2019.
Enterprises that don’t embrace disruption and facilitate the role of the Chief Disruption Officer within their company risk finding themselves on the list of giants who have fallen
By John Wysseier, CEO and President, The CEI Group
Last month, I wrote that for an organization to embrace disruptive innovation for long-term survival, it takes leadership — not just from the CEO, but from the entire C-suite of senior executives. Today, I want to consider another essential ingredient: a Chief Disruption Officer or CDO.
I want to start by pointing out that there is some ambiguity about this title. For some, CDO stands for Chief Digital Officer, more of a technology-focused position, while for others, the Chief Disruption Officer is a position that combines equal measures of expertise in sales, marketing, operations and strategy in addition to a grasp of digital technology. Yet, others bridge this divide by adding another D, and calling the position Chief Digital and Disruption Officer, or CDDO.
Winners of the 2020 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year
After hundreds of hours of test drives, research and evaluation by independent jurors, the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, Kia Telluride and Jeep Gladiator were revealed as the winners of the 2020 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year< (NACTOY) awards at TCF Center in Detroit.
These awards are unique and among the most prestigious in the industry because they are chosen by a panel of 50 respected jurors from print, online, radio and broadcast media across the U.S. and Canada – rather than by a single publication or media outlet.
Overall U.S. car sales might be declining, but there was no shortage of compelling, innovative contenders this year. When the ballots were counted, jurors selected Chevrolet Corvette Stingray as the car that stood out among its competition.
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