For iRacing we found ourselves adding a little bit of what the company calls "drift, " which actually uses the force feedback motors to help you turn the wheel faster.

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In recent months, my Auto Task Force has been reviewing requests by General Motors and Chrysler for additional government assistance, as well as plans developed by each of these companies to restructure, to modernize, and to make themselves more competitive.

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Yet, thanks to President Obama's auto task-force and a shotgun marriage with Fiat, Chrysler motors wearily on.

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Feldman and Wilson, who have been advising the Teamsters since last summer, also worked together on President Barack Obama's auto task force during the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler.

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And the President and the task force determined that this was an opportunity for a new beginning at General Motors.

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The industry itself has gone through enormous financial difficulties, but it does look like both Ford and General Motors will survive and perhaps can even thrive if they can engage their work force.

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