Trump Abandons Clean Air Talks With California
The Trump administration plans to move forward with one of its most consequential climate-policy rollbacks, deciding to scrap negotiations with California over the president’s plan to undo Obama-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks.
The move makes a protracted legal battle almost certain. At the heart of the talks was California’s longstanding right to opt out of national auto emissions rules and set its own tailpipe standards. Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, said Thursday the state was “prepared to defend our national Clean Car standards even if the Trump administration intends to go AWOL.”
Read the article at The New York Times.
Are Your People Stuck in Meeting Gridlock?
By Dr. Jan Ferri-Reed
If it feels like you’re spending too much time in meetings without getting much done you aren’t alone. According to research reported by Atlassian, a software development company, the average employee spends approximately 31 hours per month attending as many as 62 meetings.
With all that face time you’d think a lot of important information is being shared or that many critical decisions are being made. But you might be wrong.
Shifting the Conversation Towards Mobility
By Amanda Lam, INVERS Mobility Solutions
What a fleet manager does has changed over the years.
In any corporate, government, or public sector environment, a fleet manager is generally responsible for overseeing the organization’s fleet of vehicles. At the end of the day though, the responsibilities of a fleet manager are to make sure employees can get to where they need to go and transport the tools they need to get their job done.
As a result, fleet managers have begun re-shifting their focus from not just asset management, but people management as well. When you combine these two aspects, you end up with a focus on providing the right mobility options for your company’s employees.
iPhone to Car — They Lied to Me
As the global market for smartphones has become besieged by devices of all shapes and sizes, a stressed post-pubescent iPhone talks with its older mobile device cousin, the car.
By Felipe Smolka, Executive Vice President of Transformation, LeasePlan USA
I want to start this blog with a short tale of my own UX (User Experience) superhero, the iPhone. The smart device that got everyone to do a “180″ and rethink UX in its essence. Is it time for the invincible superhero to grow up? Well, maybe, just maybe, some help from cars could be of use…
Autonomous Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance As We Know It
For all the concern over accidents involving driverless cars, including Tesla’s troubles with its limited self-driving “Autopilot” mode, it’s easy to forget one of the supposed virtues of autonomous vehicles: they will make the roads safer.
A sophisticated array of lidar, radar and cameras is expected to be more adept at detecting trouble than our mortal eyes and ears. And computers never get drunk, check Tinder or fall asleep at the wheel.
“When you think of all these sensors and calibration, a little fender-bender could be a much more costly proposition,” said David Ross Keith, an assistant professor of system dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As automation reaches fully autonomous capability, insurance is going to change dramatically.
Read the article at The Detroit News.
