If You Feel the Need for Speed, Your Time Management Needs Work
The Driving Dynamics Safety Team
Speeding continues to be a serious problem. It is a contributing factor in approximately one third of all fatal collisions.
While speeding kills thousands on the highway, side roads have a fatality rate due to speeding that is almost three times that of interstates.
Why do people speed? It’s most often the result of inadequate time management.
Wheels Delivers with Results+ Every Single Day
Here’s a great explanation of how the key elements of Wheels’ Results+ methodology deliver optimal fleet performance for clients each and every day.
The Connections That Drive True Results
By Laura Jozwiak, Senior Vice President of Sales and Client Relations, Wheels, Inc.
The concept of connectivity has received a lot of buzz, and rightfully so. We are riding a wave of connectivity – vehicles, highways, the Internet of Things – and it is all powered by data. Analyzing data in new ways encourages advanced exploration, integration and education. It exposes powerful information that drives both our personal activities and business innovations.
Data is what powers SpaceX into space, tells us where we should go to dinner, summons the closest and best ride-sharing driver, and yes, delivers optimally run fleets. But is it all about the data? Of course not! It is foundational, but the real connections go beyond data.
Being an advocate for superior customer service, I would argue that it is the connections of people, along with the right data, that complete the value equation.
Ford Looks to the Future with the Transit Connect
The future of the auto industry is faced with many challenges, including the wants and needs of their customers for both business and personal uses.
"Getting it wrong in one place might spell doom for a product somewhere else in the world and lead to the loss of billions in the regional currency. Getting it right, perhaps with only a few modifications for global production and sales, will spell success.
Ford's answer is the 2017 Ford Transit van, both the full-size cargo model and the compact Connect Titanium Wagon passenger model.
Read more of the original article at The Washington Post.
Baidu Gives Lyft a Run for Ridesharing Space
The briskly changing space of ridesharing partnerships, competition and a new rival led Google's parent company, Alphabet to make a $1 billion round investment in Lyft.
Chinese company, Baidu, is an autonomous vehicle giant with a presence in both China and the United States, unlike Alphabet.
"Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li said on Tuesday that the company aims to roll out driverless buses in China in 2018, produce semi-autonomous cars by 2019, and sell fully autonomous vehicles by 2021. Baidu already has more than 50 partners for its driverless car efforts, including Bosch, Continental, and Dutch mapping company TomTom."
Read more of the original article at Slate.
