This is what I look like when a car equipped with LIDAR scans me at a distance of 20 feet. (The dark object on my chest is my ID tag.) LIDAR is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating me with a laser and analyzing the light that gets reflected. It is one […]…
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A Ride in Toyota’s Next Generation “Intelligent” Vehicle
In downtown Detroit, Toyota offered rides in Lexus’s equipped with Automated Highway Driving Assist. This car is equipped with three new types of driver’s assistance–dynamic (or adaptive) cruise control, lane trace control and a predictive Human-Machine Interface. The cruise control does more than today’s cruise controls because it will apply the brakes and actually […]…
Lenovo Goes Global
Aug. 15, 2014–This has just been posted by Strategy + Business and will appear in its print edition soon. You also can see it at www.strategy-business.com. China’s most recognizable brand has plans to overtake Apple and Samsung. by William J. Holstein Lenovo technicians at work All photographs courtesy of Lenovo In the beginning, it was […]…
What To Do About U.S. Companies Fleeing America
16 July 2014 – There’s a controversy over the number of U.S. companies that are merging with foreign entities and declaring that they are no longer U.S. companies for purposes of U.S. taxation. This is an old story I have been following for four decades. I first interviewed Dow Chemical CEO Carl Gerstacker in 1974. […]…
The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Larry Summers
July 8, 2014–This is one of the most influential minds in the economics profession, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal. Yet Summers, the former secretary of the Treasury and a professor at Harvard, does not accept that manufacturing has a major role to play in America’s future. He says its decline is “inexorable.” Every other […]…
