It’s Good to Mix a Little Realism in With All the Optimism About Self-Driving Cars
With the frequent news surrounding autonomous cars, it's easy to start believing that we're just a couple of years away from seeing them everywhere. But, that is just not the case. This tech is still very new in the public space, and adoption rates for new technology, no matter what it is, tend to be very slow.
There are a lot of new cars on the road right now that have semi-autonomous features, but they aren't driverless cars. For fully self-driving vehicles to become prevalent on U.S. roads, there will need to be much more input on the federal level. Without it, a future self-driving car would likely have to change how it operates, or whether it operates at all, when it crosses state lines.
Read the article at The Motley Fool.
Fleet Leasing Industry Veteran Jon Keller Named SVP of Sales at Fleet Advantage
Fleet Advantage has named Jon Keller as Senior Vice President of Sales. Keller is a seasoned sales veteran with extensive knowledge and experience in fleet leasing, asset management, and lifecycle cost management.
Keller comes to Fleet Advantage from Merchants Fleet Management where he most recently served as Vice President Sales, East, responsible for managing sales representatives in over a dozen states focused on business development and customer retention strategies.
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Could Cause, Not Prevent Crashes, Warns New IIHS Study
Federal safety investigators raced to the scene of a crash involving a Tesla Model S sedan last January after the vehicle slammed into the back of a firetruck stopped on a California highway, regulators wanting to know why that happened despite the vehicle using the carmaker’s advanced driver assistance system specifically designed to prevent such a crash.
“ADAS” systems are being introduced on a wide range of vehicles and, according to industry experts, could substantially reduce the number of crashes, injuries and fatalities on U.S. roads. But a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety raises serious concerns about the technology.
Read the article at The Detroit Bureau
General Motors is Taking no Chances With Risks to Cybersecurity
In order to protect consumer's data and driver safety, General Motors will bring researchers, some of whom are professional computer hackers, to Detroit to offer them a bounty or cash payment for each "bug" they uncover in any of GM vehicles' computer systems
"We'll show them the products, programs and systems for which we plan to establish these bug bounties. Then we'll put them in a comfortable environment, ply them with pizza and Red Bull or whatever they might need ... and turn them loose," GM's President Dan Ammann said in a speech at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit at Cobo Center in Detroit on Friday.
Read the article at Detroit Free Press.
Fleet and Procurement – Becoming More Informed
Here’s some great advice on how Fleet and Procurement managers can work together to be more informed and make better decisions.
