Big Brother on our side for a change?
Paul Ritchie posted in News on April 7th, 2006
Those clever Japanese tech people are working on vehicle to vehicle transmissions which would alert drivers of traffic snarls and possibly collisions. If that were not enough to interest motorists, the boffins at Nissan have mooted the possibility of children carrying the devices in congested areas with blind turns to alert drivers there’s congestion ahead and they should slow down.
The obvious question was asked - do we really want kids broadcasting their whereabouts to motorists?
So a good idea takes a turn for the absurd when our boffinmeisters suggested a panic button could be installed in the walkie version to alert parents their kids are in danger.
Nice try fellas. Let’s just stick the things in cars, huh? Let the cars talk to each other and the infrastructure networks and let the kids take the walking bus home.
Source: techsearch.
More on General Motors and this isn’t going to please anyone who firmly believes that company is in as much trouble as it’s making out. Remember I told you just on two weeks ago that GM is the largest car manufacturer in China, well news out of Abu Dhabi this morning says the ACDelco brand of batteries is the biggest brand in the entire middle east region, commanding an impressive 30% of that market with their maintenance free batteries. You know the ones - drop ‘em in and forget about them until 3 years after you’ve sold the car…
But this is old news and new news is strangely difficult to come by. I got this from an old link at ameinfo, an Arab/Middle East news source.
I don’t know what the financial arrangements are between GM’s US operations and all these subsidiaries, but if they’re owned by GM, they must be paying dividends of some description and so far, the subs seem to be doing remarkably well.
Not so for Tower Automotive, and this strikes me as typically stupid left-wing commie pinko insanity on the part of the unions “protecting” the workers. Tower, as is fairly common knowledge, has been trading under bankruptcy protection since last year. They have to cut costs if they’re going to trade their way out of their financial woe. They want to cut wages and benefits to employees, the unions won’t have a bar of it.
The unions say they’ll go out on strike rather than let Tower cut wages by 23% and if that happens, production at the Ford plant could be jeopardised. The Chicago Tribune is carrying the story, but how happy are thousands of employees at Ford going to be if a good-for-nothing union kills one industry and hurts thousands of people in a client facility?
What will the unions do if Tower goes out of business altogether and those employees find their wages cut by 100% and their entitlements reduced to a bus fare home?
Not happy, Jan, and we mean it.
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