We thought BMW simply provided transportation at the Olympics, but apparently, they do a lot more – like training long-jumpers.
According to a feature on Translogic, BMW cameras being developed to help prevent car accidents are also being used to analyse the speed of long-jumpers in both the horizontal and vertical planes.
The country is still in recession, but Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) seems to be single-handedly trying to grow the UK economy. Today it has announced another 1,100 jobs at the Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham. This is in addition to the 8,000 jobs created in the last two years.
The significance of today’s announcement is that these jobs are at Jaguar, not Land Rover, where all the growth has been up to now.
Only in Lotus-land. At the same time it was opening its Ferrari-rivalling store in London, Lotus said it was pulling out of the Paris Motor Show in September.
