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SAE International

                   

Contempt for Congress (And Potential Contempt of Congress)

legitgov.org
Apr 20, 2008
        

By Stephen Johnson. EPA has refused to turn over the documents, still calling them "pre-decisional" in a letter today, and fearing that they might create an "erroneous impression of the agency's thinking" and potentially be "injurious to important Executive Branch institutional prerogatives."...

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Breaking News: Lane departure systems promising: study

drive.com.au
Apr 19, 2008 2 related
        

Lane departure alerts are among the most promising new safety technologies, according to a new study by a US insurer-funded group. ... Collision warning systems and lane departure alerts are among the most promising new safety technologies and could potentially prevent...

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Experts say explaining fuel-saving technology to buyers is tough task for auto industry

iht.com
Apr 16, 2008 8 related
        

Automakers need to form some consensus on the technology they will use to improve fuel economy — whether it is diesels, hybrids, electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel cells — and do a better of explaining those options if they want consumers to buy in, auto industry experts said Wednesday at a...

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Collision and lane-departure alerts show hope as life-savers

denverpost.com
Apr 17, 2008
        

Collision-warning systems and lane-departure alerts are among the most promising new safety technologies for cars and could potentially prevent thousands of fatal accidents, according to a new study. ... The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety studied five safety...

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Study: Collision, lane departure systems show promise

bostonherald.com
Apr 16, 2008 11 related
        

DETROIT - Collision warning systems and lane departure alerts are among the most promising new safety technologies and could potentially prevent thousands of fatal accidents,... ... Added 25m ago DETROIT - Collision warning systems and lane departure alerts are among the...

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Americans unwilling to pay for big fuel economy gains, car makers say

detnews.com
Apr 16, 2008 51 related
        

DETROIT -- Automakers will shoulder most of the costs of making vehicles more fuel efficient, as many Americans aren't willing to pay for higher fuel economy, a panel of industry officials said today at the SAE International World Congress. ... In 2007, 43 percent of...

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Scott Burgess: Parts and systems fine-tuned; firms will go green gradually

detnews.com
Apr 16, 2008 1 related
        

The engineers, designers and pitchmen at this year's SAE International World Congress are going green piece by piece. ... LeVern Hoover, general manager of Chicago-based Methode Electronics Inc., showed off his company's magnetized steering system, which he says is...

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Insourcing Trend Dead After One Month

thetruthaboutcars.com
Apr 15, 2008
        

Part of the fun of this job: remembering what people said. For example, exactly one month ago, the Detroit Free Press was all about "in-sourcing." "'Due to recent UAW concessions,' [Merrill Lynch automotive analyst] John Murphy wrote in a recent note to investors, 'these tasks [parts design and...

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Suppliers to expand R&D roles

detnews.com
Apr 15, 2008 3 related
        

Auto suppliers will shoulder a bigger burden of research and development costs as automakers look to shift some of the billions of dollars in costs of developing high-tech features in future vehicles, executives said Monday at SAE International's 2008 World Congress.

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Big 3 may start hiring in Sept.

detnews.com
Apr 15, 2008 5 related
        

A distant light amid Michigan's economic darkness: Detroit's Big Three automakers will start hiring as soon as September and will employ nearly 46,000 new workers in this state over the next eight years. ... That's the somewhat upbeat conclusion of a new report issued by...

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