Last updated on Monday, November 21, 2005
General Motors made headlines in all the major media as they announced the elimination of 30,000 manufacturing jobs and the closure of nine assembly, stamping and Powertrain plants in 3 years. Thankfully, Bedford’s facility will be largely unaffected. GM simply has to get its costs in line to compete with the major global competitors.
According to Mike Santarini in the November 2005 edition of Movers and Shakers, Alan Taub, Executive Director of GM's Research & Development in Warren, Michigan says:
"We're reinventing both the automobile and the driving experience, and electronics is the key enabler."
Taub says that GM's advances will create the hydrogen fuel-cell powered automobile, adaptive cruise control and automated front-steer crash avoidance (in which an automobile will automatically steer and brake to avoid accidents.) Sounds as if electronic controls and software will be paramount in the new designs.
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