Should I expect all future car ads to spend significant amounts of time showing off satellite radio?
For Cadillac, CUE is a way to gain future car sales and attract new customers to the brand.
Only a confirmed Luddite could fail to realize that the future of car sales is online.
"We envisage a future where car-sharing members outnumber car owners in major cities around the globe, " says Zipcar's European president, Frerk-Malte Feller.
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Of course, in the more distant future, the car will just drive itself, and you, home.
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In the not-too-distant future, a car with a radio that receives only AM or FM will qualify as an antique.
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At some point in the future, every car will need to be connected to the outside world through a cellular network.
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But for drivers like Zhang, who says he can only afford a local brand now but may upgrade to an Audi SUV in the near future, owning car is about convenience and comfort.
While key components of these research efforts could lead to a fully autonomous car in the future, the vision is not necessarily a car that drives itself.
He added that he believes that in the near future, in-car communications will become essential.
But Southampton's port operators, Associated British Ports (ABP), remain upbeat about the future prospects of their car terminal business.
Deputy Martin is asking the planning minister to identify a larger and more suitable site for the police and to protect the Green Street site for the future expansion of the car park.
Right now there is a Book of Ideas open at Future Mobility Now, a project of the European car industry to define mobility in the near future by connecting with young people.
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The car of the future will also become a mobile command center for us to manage our lives.
The plan for the future is to extend the car-free day to embrace more cities and even entire regions.
To demonstrate the potential, the company developed a "police car of the future" decked out with cameras, modems and digital video recorders.
Legal wrangling over the future of a shopping centre car park in Dorset could be nearing agreement, according to the centre's operators.
Following approvals, Continental will receive its testing license and red license plate featuring an infinity sign to represent the car of the future.
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Certainly more and more suppliers will leave the EU. There will be more robots and fewer workers in east European car plants in future.
And they're not just going to look at some foreign-made car, they're going to say, you know what, GM is making the car of the future.
For Intel, the car of the future would come with a myriad of technologies to help us communicate and manage time and other resources more efficiently.
"The Edsel was oversold by Ford as the revolutionary car of the future, " said Matt Anderson, a curator at the Henry Ford, a museum in Dearborn, Mich.
Let's support this program by encouraging our friends and neighbors to finally retire that guzzler and help the country with the purchase of a cleaner, lower maintenance car for the future.
For the foreseeable future, every flex-fuel car sold will increase America's dependence on oil.
Deciding which technology will dominate the car batteries of the future is purely speculative at this point.
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But Zipcar is convinced that the survey means big growth for car sharing in the near future.
In sum, the driverless car provides Google with tremendous future business option value, all for less than what GM has spent on Super Bowl commercials over the last decade.
And since the car too was part of the future, Brasilia was designed with broad roads and clover-leaf junctions to let traffic flow non-stop.
There's still a bright future for electric vehicles though -- electric car maker Tesla Motors announced that it turned a profit in the first quarter of 2013 for the first time, as sales of the Model S exceeded expectations.
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