Automobiles

Are self-driving cars safe? As technology advances, cars are becoming more enhanced and innovative. For instance, Tesla Motors launched a vehicle that is electric and drives itself, with the supervision of a human. However, other manufacturers/ companies, like Google and Uber, want to get rid of the steering wheel and pedals, to make the vehicle fully driverless. In the article, “When robots and humans take turns at the wheel,” Russ Mitchell explains the possible safety outcomes of…

line. With his new moving assembly line, Ford was shooting cars right out of his factory literally fractioning the time it took to build a car; from a whopping twelve hours to a lightning fast two and a half hours. He set new standards for the automobile industry for both time and cost. Fords were cheaper due to lower production costs than its competitors. Henry Ford even further lower the cost of his vehicles by taking advantage of his very lucrative profit margins. This was a perfect thing…

Abstract As vehicular pollution is increasing in the environment because of the hazardous CO2 and other carbon compound emissions and other harmful pollutants that are emitted by the vehicles puts a negative impact on the atmosphere. Society has been making a large effort to make everything green and cleaner in today’s world, including transportation. Buying a car is big investment and requires the consideration of many different variables. With the growing interest in saving our planet, many…

methods to revolutionize automation. There has been such a significant improvement in technology until now and all the credit should be given to Ford’s total minimization of cost theory. Automation has led to a large reduction in the price of the automobiles to the point a person nowadays is completely immobile without it. Although, the minimization of costs caused layoffs of the workers, the minimization of total costs in production still had a huge positive impact in the practice of…

strategy have been extremely successful thus far. They are the second oldest publicly traded auto company in the United States behind Ford, and are starting a luxury sports car company from scratch. They are being called the Apple computer of the Automobile industry and have in fact hired Apple’s former retail chief to build their new distribution model. However, their Direct Sales Model strategy has yet to be proven effective in the long…

A visual distraction is anything that takes your eyes off the road. While driving we are constantly being side tracked by signs and advertisements we see all over the place from the newest restaurants opening, to the $100 billion Powerball billboards on the highway, the last thing you need to be doing is trying to reply to a text while paying attention to all of these catchy signs. Cognitive distractors are anything that takes your mind off the road like engaging in a conversation via text or…

Product Portfolio Strategy Hyundai Hyundai has a wide range of cars in their vehicle line up. Their product line includes domestic cars, SUVs, Economical cars and Commercial vehicles. Cars include Centennial, Genesis, Genesis Coupe, Azera, Sonata, i40, i40 sedan, Elantra, Elantra Coupe, i30, i30 wagon, i30 3DR , Veloster, Veloster turbo, Accent, Accent 5DR, ix20, i20 5DR, i20 3DR, HB20, Grand i10, New Generation i10 and Eon. The SUV models are Grand Santa Fe, Santa Fe and Tucson. The Economy…

Maintenance of recreational vehicles What is an RV? The word RV stands for “Recreational Vehicles”. This is a new, entirely different and a revolution in the generation of vehicles and automobiles. These are described as such vehicles that have all the features and facilities of home. They have quite a large living space, equipped with all the necessary items of home like kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, dining room, lounge equipped with all basic facilities like TV, light, fan, sofa or a desk,…

Tesla motors have revolutionized the motor industry with the introduction of an electric powered automobile. By utilizing the rotor, the Tesla company as engineered their vehicles to propel a better and enhancive feel in the transport arena. To achieve their success in the marketing field, the Tesla Company has had to improve their marketing strategy unlike the strategies used by traditional automobile strategists. The approach used by the company articulates to the successful marketing…

launching the model Roadster as the First-Tesla product to be marketed. Soon the model S was launched to tackle the Sports premium sedan segment to capture more market share as well as lately the model X for the luxury SUV segment. The premium luxury automobiles industry takes up to 15% of the total automotive industry and with a high purchasing power among consumers. Therefore, Tesla wanted to introduce an alternative in this specific market segment as there were no high end fully electric…