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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Toyota Take Five–What Will Intelligent Driving Really Mean?
September 7, 2014
published by William J. Holstein on 7 September 2014 – 1:14pm I came away from Toyota’s Advanced Safety Seminar convinced that there will be dramatic changes in the automobile in coming years. As John Lee from the University of Wisconsin said, there will be more sweeping changes in the interaction between car and driver in […]
Chief Executive magazine–Top Five Play Cars for CEOs
July 7, 2014
Go here to see the complete list of what edmunds.com Editor Scott Oldham and I came up with: Five Best Fun Cars for CEOs You’ve worked long and hard and you deserve to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Buying a fun, weekend car is one obvious way to do that. Never mind what they […]
Toyota Take Four–An Intriguing Drivers Heads-up Display
July 6, 2014
Sept. 7, 2014–One of the major questions about building more intelligent cars, and perhaps ones that are ultimately self-driving, is how information is communicated to the driver. Today’s technology would allow an absolute flood of information to reach the driver, but the risk of course is that it would cause driver distraction. The traditional goal […]
Toyota Take Three–How LIDAR helps cars “see
July 5, 2014
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 […]
A Ride in Toyota’s Next Generation “Intelligent” Vehicle
July 4, 2014
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 […]
Zero Highway Fatalities–Why Not
July 4, 2014
4 September 2014 – 1:52pm We’ve made progress in reducing the number of highway fatalities each year in this country from about 41,000 to 32,000 in 2013. That’s positive obviously, but stop to think about it. We still have 32,000 Americans dying every year, a shocking number. Aside from more seat-belt use and tighter enforcement […]
