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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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Sacrificing much, GM spent billions and billions of 1980s dollars on technology and engineering entities at the behest of CEO Roger Smith, who wanted to transform The General into a company more resembling a conglomerate like GE. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5

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Honda demonstrates advanced vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-motorcycle connected vehicle safety technologies

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Honda also has been conducting advanced research into Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) systems and is a partner in the Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Program conducted by the US Department of Transportation, including the Department’s Safety Pilot Model Deployment test program, currently underway in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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ArcelorMittal opens tailored blanks operation in Detroit

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Once combined, the part can be hot or cold stamped to form the final shape. By combining different steels, or using different thicknesses, engineers can finely tune the performance of the part to meet different load case criteria. The technology is being implemented in additional Honda and Acura vehicles.

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Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

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It’s the first of GM’s brands to dispense with internal combustion engines. In part, this is because Cadillac is hugely important for GM’s continuing presence in China, a market that gets more challenging for the US carmaker every year. GM has said Cadillac’s lineup will be all-electric by 2030—only one full product cycle away.