Work Truck Solutions Names Tony Solano New VP of Sales
Work Truck Solutions is announcing that Tony Solano has joined the company as their VP of Sales.
Tony's previous experience in Automotive DMS, SaaS, and CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) make him highly qualified to lead the growth of Work Truck Solutions, a company building business solutions in the work truck industry.
Tony is responsible for leading in-house sales managers and field representatives in building relationships with dealerships, OEMs, body manufacturers, distributors, and other industry contacts.
Uber Has a Plan for Detecting Drunken Passengers
Uber has submitted a plan for artificial intelligence that detects a user’s drunken behavior.
The system tracks how someone typically uses Uber’s app: how quickly they type (and with how many typos), how precisely they click on buttons, their walking speed, and the way their phone is typically held or dropped on any given day.
Factors like these are plugged into Uber’s planned algorithm, along with details about when and where the ride was requested. A late-night Uber call or one that’s from an area loaded with bars, would tip the system off about a rider’s sobriety differently than a daytime call from the suburbs.
Read the article at The Verge.
Land Rover Wants to Take Autonomous Cars Off-Road
Last week, Land Rover announced that it is developing the ultimate combination of off-road capability and in-car comfiness: self-driving cars that can go off-road.
The $5 million project, called Cortex, will give customers “autonomous car capable of all-terrain, off-road driving in any weather condition.
The problem with taking self-driving off-road is that you give up the predictability of streets designed for cars. No lane lines, no curbs, no reliably stark difference between the road and whatever’s next to it. “Even working out where you can drive becomes more difficult,” Clarke says.
Read the article at Wired.
Ford Meets Disaster Relief With Customized Transits
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season is underway and Ford Motor Company Fund wants to provide disaster relief teams with the best equipped and most capable vehicles when people need help.
Beginning June 5, Ford Motor Company Fund is accepting applications for the second Ford Disaster Relief Mobility Challenge, an opportunity for nonprofit partners to tap into their expertise and creativity to customize a Ford Transit to fit a particular need in their community.
“When natural disaster strikes, it is critical to move the right people, the right materials and the right vehicles to impacted areas to help people as quickly as possible,” said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund. “Nowhere is our mission to strengthen communities more urgent than in recovery efforts during the hours, days and weeks following a natural disaster.”
Read the article at Ford Media Center.
Creating a More Productive Relationship Between Procurement and Fleet
Following is an excerpt of the NAFA Foundation’s newest paper. To download a free copy of the full paper, please visit this link.
Driven by increasing demands from executive management to control costs, over the past decade procurement professionals have assumed a position of increasing influence over automotive fleet management.
This ranges from simply being granted a more assertive role in selecting vehicles and suppliers, to the absorption of fleet into the procurement domain.
