#automotive industry

#automotive industry

For parents and guardians traveling in cars with babies and young kids, they would of course want the best and the safest baby car seats for their charges.While there are a lot of options in the market, apparently, safety regulations have not been updated since the year 2000.That doesn't mean designers and manufacturers haven't been keeping up to date with all the newest technology to make these car seats safer and now we will be getting what is probably the safest and most technologically advanced product in the market.

The Conservatives are overseeing a car theft epidemic, the Liberal Democrats have warned, as the party claimed that around four in five car thefts went unsolved last year.Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said that criminals are being allowed to act with impunity, as he hit out at the Government's crime record just a day before the local elections.

More than two-thirds of UK car owners believe a proposed relaxation of MOT rules would put lives in danger, a new survey suggests.Some 67% of respondents to a poll commissioned by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) opposed extending the time before new cars, motorbikes and vans need their first MOT, due to safety concerns.

A worker scooped 500,000 on the lottery after swapping to an early shift so he could attend a hospital appointment.Jeff Etherington, who works as a machine setter for the automotive industry, said he can't help thinking it's fate.The 65-year-old, from Harlow in Essex, bought his winning Thunderball lucky dip ticket at Sainsbury's in Harlow on January 11, after attending a meeting about his knee replacement.

As companies re-shore production operations to the developed world they need to invest in automation.This is often unfeasible for small to medium sized companies.Production-as-a-Service offers a model in which these companies can contract with independent factory operators to provide production services on an as-needed basis.

Jesse Cannon-Wallace doesn't have a TikTok strategy.Still, Cannon-Wallace, who works as asalesperson at Mercedes Benz of Atlanta Northeast, has been able to amass more than 120,000 followers on the platform via organic posts documenting test drives, how-to tutorials and product features for the dealership's fleet.

Programmatic and data solution experts Crimtan has announced a partnership with Autovia and Haymarket to give car sellers in-depth access to customer car buying intent signals from 2 out of 3 prospective car buyers.This collaboration comes as the 2023 car market continues its dramatic recovery, with data from the partnership showing a remarkable 73% increase in intent-to-buy from March alone within the industry.

Advertising is becoming more of a priority in the boardroom - for real time this time.It's an oft-touted claim whenever times get tough: CEOs who continue to advertise during downturns end up on top.Few CFOs buy into this viewpoint, however.Instead, they tend to cut advertising first during these moments because it's a variable cost that can be quickly halted.

We can expect continued disruption to the global semiconductor industry and, therefore, continued supply chain shortages in the automotive industry throughout 2023, according to a new report in the Financial Times.The head of Onsemi, Hassane El-Khoury, told the paper that "there's nothing you can do now to change 2023," and that "we will be adding capacity every quarter, every month in 2023 to meet our customer demand."