Kontos Kommentary – December 2016 Edition
In the latest Kontos Kommentary, Tom Kontos, Chief Economist at KAR Auction Services, provides his insight and updates regarding used vehicle market conditions. To read the entire Kontos Kommentary for December 2016, visit https://www.adesa.com/kontos-kommentary.
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Heading Our Way: The Driverless Car
Much of the technology for the driverless car is in place today and a great deal more is in development. We feature a number of articles from various sources about the long drive to autonomous vehicles, and the dominant theme is safety.
Columnist Jeff Schlesinger’s article ‘The Race for the Driverless Car Accelerates’ gives us an excellent review of where we are today. He says, “Fleet managers should embrace this fast-approaching technology. With safety as one of the top, if not the top, priority for all fleet managers, and the increased press of driverless vehicles, questions will surely arise as to the short- and long-term plans for the company’s fleet policy to adopt this technology.”
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Editor in Chief
Seven Automotive Trends to Watch in 2017
Just how old is that hooptie in your driveway?
The average vehicle on American roads is nearly 12 years old, market research shows, as drivers hold on to their old, reliable wheels for longer stretches of time. That has held true even as more people than ever bought new cars last year — 17.5 million of them.
The most popular vehicles today are getting bigger in size, generating reams of data and, more and more often, pestering you to drive better. The vehicles built for the future — those that are merely bold concepts today — will be even more peculiar and provocative.
In the past two weeks, the CES technology conference in Las Vegas and the North American International Auto Show in Detroit offered tremendous insight into where automotive trends stand today and where they appear to be headed in the years to come. Below are seven trends every driver should have on his or her radar, whether looking to make a trade-in or just gawking at what’s on the road.
Finding Your Niche in Fleet
As part of our Women in Fleet Management series, Susan Miller talks about what it was like to find her niche in the Fleet Industry, and as a part of AFLA.
