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Polk Auto Trend Centers Take Public Pulse At North American International Auto Show: Webcast Report
Visitors to the North American International Auto Show will get the chance to tell pollsters about the favorite product features they see on the hundreds of cars and trucks on display and also a little about their personal driving styles on five interactive computer kiosks set up by the Polk Company, the folks who have been tracking auto records since 1922. Polk Chairman Stephen Polk, in an audio webcast interview with Michigan Technology News.Com (www.mitechnews.com) ePublisher Mike Brennan said the information collected at the Polk Auto Trend Centers will measure the public’s sentiments regarding automakers, their products and the auto show. (LINK TO TEXT REPORT)
Detroit Auto Show Strives To Remain On The Technology Cutting Edge For World Press: Webcast Report
Digital
cameras are replacing conventional film-cameras so quickly the North American
International Auto Show may not even offer on-site film processing for
journalists next year, says John Love, president of Event Management Corp. in
Grosse Pointe Farms, which manages the Michelin Press Center at the Detroit
show.
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TO TEXT REPORT)
David Cole is probably the best-known auto analyst
in Michigan. In an interview with Michigan Technology News.Com ePublisher Mike
Brennan, Cole president of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, said
he sees the future of the auto industry on display this week at the North
American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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TO TEXT REPORT)
Ford Announces Telematics Simulator To Measure Distracted Driving: Auto Show Report By TCC Team
Automakers want to sell consumers a bevy of
telematics devices to create a “wired wherever we go’’ driving environment,
contends TCC Team, publisher of TheCarConnection.Com., in Wednesday’s
Automotive Technology Report. But at least 40 state governments, along with
officials in Washington, could soon make moves to limit this wired auto world by
banning cell phone use in cars and trucks.
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TO TEXT REPORT)
GM Offers Digital Press Kit That Downloads To PalmPilot: Detroit Auto Show Report
General Motors is offering the thousands of
journalists who are covering the North American International Auto Show in
Detroit an electronic press kit that includes public relations contacts, press
releases, executive biographies and even an interactive map of the show floor.
GM’s wrinkle? The electronic press kit downloads directly from a docking station
in the GM pavilion to PalmPilot personal digital assistants.
(LINK
TO TEXT REPORT)
In Tuesday’s Technology Report from the North
American International Auto Show, TCC Team, publisher of
TheCarConnection.Com, examines new “green’’ propulsion technologies in
development by the world’s largest automaker on selected demo cars, trucks and
buses worldwide.
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TO TEXT REPORT)
TCC Team Talks About The Lack of Green Machines At North American International Auto Show
TCC Team, publisher of
TheCarConnection.Com, in Monday’s Technology Report, talks about how much less
emphasis there is this year at the North American International Auto Show in
Detroit on “green’’ technology.
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TO TEXT REPORT)
GM-Toyota-ExxonMobile Make Progress In Developing Fuel-Cell Technology: Auto Show Report
Executives for General Motors and Toyota announced
Monday at the North American International Auto Show that a joint collaboration
begun in April 1999 to develop fuel-cell technologies could lead to a world
where zero-emission hydrogen-powered vehicles take over for today’s gasoline and
diesel-powered cars and trucks
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TO TEXT REPORT)
Futuristic concept
cars equipped with a variety of telematics and computerized devices were the
rule Sunday, rather than the exception, as the North American International Auto
Show kicked off in Detroit on the first of four press preview days.
(LINK
TO TEXT REPORT)
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