CEO Dan Akerson talks with the media after GM’s annual shareholders’ meeting. “This place was not the most pleasant place four years ago,” he said during the meeting. “It wasn’t that pleasant three or two years ago.”
General Motors executives eager to shed the stigma of government ownership got two doses of welcome news ahead of last week’s annual shareholders’ meeting.
Chrysler is recalling about 15,000 new Dodge Dart compact cars worldwide because the engines can stall in cold weather.
A new University of Utah study funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that, when compared to talking to a live person on a cell phone, using speech recognition technology to command devices while driving resulted in “a relatively high level of cognitive distraction,” according to MyStar.
Based on this study, MyStar, a marketing company that provides branded personal assistance service to auto dealerships, feels that its service has once again been proven to be a more effective alternative to voice-recognition apps.
Wisconsin Assemblyman Ed Brooks (R-50) recently introduced Assembly Bill 237 regarding automobile repair facility steering by insurance companies, the Automotive Service Association (ASA) reported.
Mercedes-Benz is recalling certain model year 2013 SLK250 and SLK350 vehicles manufactured Oct. 9, 2012, through Nov. 20, 2012, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
