NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Big Story: WardsAuto e-Dealer 100 Standouts Tell How They Do Digital

Best e-tailing practices include wedding high technology to old-time customer service, using compatible systems that talk to each other and calming down traditional salespeople.

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New Safety Tech for Motorcycles; Global Car Sales Continue To Grow; Can Tesla Meet Production Goals?

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Google’s Waymo Self-Driving Car So Good It’s Boring

Being predictable and communicating well may not sound exciting, but it is great for building trust, whether you are talking about humans or machines.

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U.K. Funds Driverless Car Testing Infrastructure

The projects are the first to be funded from the government’s £100m Connected and Autonomous Vehicles testing infrastructure program. Industry will match the government funding, The Engineer magazine reports.

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Record October Canadian Light-Truck Sales

Canada LV sales up 10.5% despite declining car sales.

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Average Fuel Economy Up in October

Share of electric vehicles stayed flat from prior-year, but plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids showed small upticks.

Autoneum Opens Seventh Production Facility in China

The Yantai plant represents the start of Autoneum’s significant capacity expansion in China. Series production of carpet systems, inner dashes and wheelhouse outer liners launch soon at a new facility in Changsha. Two other factories are under construction.

Nissan to Resume Car Production for Home Market

Nissan plans to resume building vehicles for the Japanese market Tuesday, 19 days after suspending production when the automaker learned uncertified technicians had been conducting final inspections for decades.

Test Riding Waymo's Self-Driving Minivan

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Potential threats lurk everywhere on the test track: there are technicians posing as distracted bicyclists and pedestrians, simulated construction areas and impatient drivers entering roundabouts out of turn. It could be as scary as a Halloween funhouse, but instead the minivan calmly avoids every hazard without drama or screeching tires.

Subaru Q2 Operating Profit Falls 13.2%

Japan's sixth-largest automaker says the decline in second-quarter profits prompted it to cut its full-year operating-profit forecast from ¥410 billion to ¥380 billion.

Days Over for Stocking Used-Car Lot By Gut Instinct

“Managing a used-car inventory is a science today,” dealer Sam Slaughter says during an Autoline Spotlight video presented by WardsAuto. The program focuses on various aspects of wholesale dealer lending.

UK Car Sales Tumble 12% in October

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders data shows October marked the seventh consecutive month of declining new-car sales in the region.

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