Smart Car

Have you ever thought that self driving cars will ever come to the market? Do you even think they are ready to be on the road? Would you have enough money to afford one? In the two Newsela articles relating to the self driving cars, driverless cars might be in the market in the next five to six years! My first reason is that you don't have to do anything when you're in the car. If you're going on a long trip you could just do your work or texting you friends or even just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride without driving at all. Right now people are inventing advanced computer systems so a self driving car can take you from one place to another without any human help. Another reason is that the self driving car can eliminate human accidents

Imagine being able to get into your car and simply typing in your desired destination, and then reclining your seat to watch a movie or text a friend. During this time, the car is basically driving itself. Well, soon this may be possible this invention is called an autonomous car. An autonomous car, or driverless/ robotic car, is a car that is designed to drive without human interference. Essentially, drivers can program their destination into the car’s GPS system and then sit back and relax. Some of the world’s largest car companies are currently creating autonomous vehicles, such as Audi, Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes, and countless others. The driverless vehicle is now becoming a clearer and more present reality, and has been discussed and planned for decades. The autonomous vehicle offers significant benefits, but raises many questions and difficulties.

Cars are something that almost every person has or will use in their everyday life or need to use their car to get to and from work or school everyday. Well in this paper you will learn about what technology has done to change the Automotive Industry as well as your everyday life. This paper will be focusing on the Technologies inside of the car, along with the Technologies that keep you safe and also a little bit about Self-Driving Cars. So fasten your seatbelts while you are reading this paper.

While undergoing transformation, various factors have and are still accelerating metamorphic process of the company (Victoria Times Colonist, 2010). Need for improved efficiency is one of the factors that have accelerated change within the firm. Company’s efficiency determines how fast production process is. Efficient company not only improves quality of its products but also is important in quality of services delivery. Effectiveness of labor in a company also constitutes

This new division has created a new engine that is more environmentally sound and economical than any other car manufacturer at this time. Because Mazda not only wants to ensure low prices on their vehicles, this new engine’s production line will be very effective and efficient. Mazda understands that the supply chain of this engine has to have very little to no flaws if a profit will be made. Mazda will look to local companies and manufacturers for the parts to create to engine to ensure lowest cost possible to build the engine. Because Mazda has a production center, adding to the center for this engine type was not too costly. Mazda was able to use current employees to move into the production line and leadership team for this new division.

According to today's society, we can see a drastic change in technology today. Most Americans today tend to believe that self-driving cars are going to become very widespread over the next couple decades. The purpose of self-driving cars are to dramatically reduce traffic accidents; In other words, self-driving cars will be safer and more efficient than a normal car. For example, Psychologist Peter Hancock in his article titled, “Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers” asserts that over 90 percent of car crashes in the U.S. have been due to human error. ASIRT (Association for safe international road travel) has also calculated that, “Over 1.3 million people die every year from

It remoulds the manufacturing industries with optimized productivity by making a radical departure from traditional mastery of a craft and rationalizing work, skills and routines. It is the most common strategies conducted in nowadays large scale secondary industries as its outputs are easily quantifiable and predictable. Also, other industries are adhered to the principles of assembly line (Whitfield, 2004). McDonald is one of the typical examples that demonstrates the incorporation of it into the service industries. Staff mechanically repeat the same specialized task, frying French fries, making hamburgers, filling cups with soft drinks and etc. Customers also inherently conform to the rationalized business mode of McDonald by filing forward in queues to get the meal as if on a conveyor belt. This illustrates that the influence of the assembly line is wide-ranging, profound and long-lasting.

The use and idea of self Driving cars are starting to become the new trend over the years. The Tesla and Google have been chipping away and considering the fact at creating self driving vehicles. The proceeding with development of car innovation means to convey a considerably more prominent Automated Driving Systems that can deal with the entire undertaking of driving when we would prefer not to or can't do it without anyone else's help. The thought and consideration of self driving cars just needs more time to be worked on and looked at before we start putting these on the roads for everyone to use...

There are at least two types of carmaker consortiums: 1) standard-setting consortiums, and 2) multi-party platform JVs. In standard-setting consortiums, multiple carmakers voluntarily participate in a non-equity alliance to drive technological convergence around a common standard, platform, or system, which all parties agree to use. Over time, these consortiums can grow large – with five, ten, even fifteen partners or more. For example, Ford is developing SmartDeviceLink as an open source in-car entertainment and navigation system software that connects dashboards with smartphones and is attempting to license the software to other carmakers. Toyota has committed to Ford’s software – PSA Peugeot Citroën, Mazda, Honda, Subaru are also actively

In the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey 2008 publication to congress, indicated that about 94% of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. The results from the survey that occurred between 2005 – 2007 was marked at collecting on-scene information about the events and associated factors that both lead up or caused motor vehicle crashes. The results concluded that 94% was critical reason attributable to drivers, due to driver decision error such as speed, misjudgments, distractions, driving under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs. In about 2 % of the crashes, the critical reason was assigned to a vehicle component’s failure or deprivation, another 2 % was attributed to the environment such as weather conditions, and slippery roads and more (Critical

Building on its success in the European market over the past few years, Mercedes-Benz Canada has launched the Smart Car in Canada! Following a few modifications to meet Canadian safety and emission standards, Mercedes-Benz is currently selling the Smart in Ontario as a trial before a full North American launch the following year. The Smart is unique - almost revolutionary in the auto market. The people at Mercedes believe that the market for the Smart is untapped with virtually no direct competition in North America. Mercedes desires to be the first to market before the competition launches a competing niche vehicle in the competitive North American Market. However, GM,

Competition is good for producers but better for consumers, more competition in the market means more: ideas, channels of distribution, market stability and competitive (lower) prices for consumers. Ultimately, healthy competition forces producers to offer better products and services at lower prices. Automobiles provide people with “…aspirational value in addition to a basic mode of transportation…” (Reinhardt, Yao & Egawa, 2006) consumers make purchasing “decision based on the styling, color, and concept of the cars in addition to functions and pricing” (Reinhardt, Yao & Egawa, 2006). So far, TMC has been trying to catch up with Honda and Nissan in the ‘innovative’ department. Let’s not forget the criticism the company previously faced for offering its customers “…proliferation of look-alike cars…and following rather than setting a trend” (Reinhardt, Yao & Egawa, 2006).Since, Mr.

For future development projects, Carl-Peter Foster should concentrate on BMW’s core competencies of concept design and assembly- then outsource its parts to experienced suppliers who can offer further technological knowledge. In order for BMW to introduce more models more frequently, they need to decrease the lead-time from the concept phase of the car to the release of the final product to the market.

There are two key channels what LM uses to deliver value for its customers: the community and the regional microfactories. The community is a core element of LM’s business model and consists of a group of car enthusiasts and designers who communicate mainly on an online platform, but they also meet in person during events organized by LM. Microfactories serve as places for car manufacturing but they mean a lot more for the company. They are places to gather together with the community and to work together with customers whilst assembling. Both key channels are important parts of LM’s marketing strategy and play a prominent role in the customer experience. LM uses mainly these own and direct channels to reach its customers. It raises awareness about its cars using mostly its website. This platform also helps potential customers in evaluating the offerings of LM as community members share their opinion, knowledge and experience there. The purchase, the delivery and the after sales service happen through the channel of microfactories.

The current process: In 1990s a development process was entailed which is 60-month-long. Two major prototyping