Amazon’s New FleetWise Transfers Vehicle Data to Cloud to Aid Safety, Design December 1, 2021 By Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud-based data service that could help automakers remotely diagnose issues in their vehicles...
Safety Regulator Wants Crashes of Cars with Advanced Tech Reported Within 1 Day June 30, 2021 By Ben Klayman U.S. regulators on Tuesday said they would keep a closer eye on the automotive industry as it rolls out advanced...
GM Sees Insurance As Part of Growing Its Business Beyond Cars, Trucks April 7, 2021 By Joseph White, Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co. makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is...
GM Recalling 69,000 Chevy Bolt Electric Cars Over Fire Risk November 16, 2020 By Ben Klayman and David Shepardson General Motors Co. said on Friday it was recalling 68,677 electric cars worldwide that pose a fire risk after five...
Profit-Driven Automakers Race to Next Level of Not Quite Self-Driving Cars July 15, 2020 By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance...
U.S. Automakers Revving Up Production, Stressing Covid Safety at Work and Home June 18, 2020 By Ben Klayman and Joseph White Automakers are speeding up U.S. assembly lines to meet recovering demand, increasingly confident coronavirus safety protocols are working to prevent...
Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer Says Manufacturers Can Reopen on May 11 May 8, 2020 By Ben Klayman and David Shepardson Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says the state’s factories can reopen on May 11, removing one of the last major obstacles...
Takata Agrees to Recall 34 Million Cars for Air Bag Replacement May 20, 2015 By Ben Klayman and David Morgan Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp. is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles,...
Google, Detroit Take Different Routes on Driverless Cars July 1, 2014 By Alexei Oreskovic and Ben Klayman In 2012, a small team of Google Inc. engineers and business staffers met with several of the world’s largest car...
GM CEO Barra Has Few Answers on What Went Wrong April 2, 2014 By Ben Klayman and Eric Beech General Motors Co CEO Mary Barra on Tuesday called her company’s slow response to faulty ignition switches linked to at...