Her experience is in planning how vehicles are built, not how they're developed.
Connected vehicles are also the subject of another recent series of Cisco white papers, which look at how vehicles could connect not only to each other, but to infrastructure, the grid, and city buildings.
Accordingly, companies are reportedly pushing back against NASA rules establishing how their vehicles must be designed rather than how they must perform.
Looking forward, private equity firms needs to be more agnostic about how their vehicles are structured.
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The result is a rich database about how certain vehicles perform over time.
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Determining how many vehicles, and what kind of vehicles, will cross a bridge on a daily basis is not merely academic.
They say that for too long, Chrysler has allowed its marketing decisions to be driven by manufacturing concerns--how many vehicles can a factory churn out to maximize efficiency?
There will also be resources for the ambulance service to develop how it tracks vehicles so the hospital knows when they are arriving.
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In the past year, Chrysler has introduced 16 new or significantly upgraded vehicles that have managed to turn the minds of even the toughest automotive reviewers, many of whom have said they are surprised at how much Chrysler vehicles have improved in such a short time.
Nobody can tell how many of these vehicles come from Albania's notorious stolen-car market.
Learning how to assemble exploration vehicles at the ISS would also be part of this new vision.
In particular, an internal report from Transport for London (TfL) in 2008 highlighted how "aggressive" vehicles were and said "casualties are inevitable".
John German, manager for environmental and energy analysis at Honda Motor, described his company's pioneering development of natural gas passenger vehicles and how that development might bloom.
To close this series, the final segment will look at what it would take for electric cars to really become affordable replacements to gasoline-powered vehicles and how far away such a breakthrough might be.
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John German, manager for environmental and energy analysis at Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ), described his company's pioneering development of natural gas passenger vehicles and how that development might bloom.
Bob Lutz, the legendary auto executive who worked for all of the Detroit Three said that when he was at Chrysler one reason his people wanted to buy American Motors (aside from its ownership of Jeep) was because it could teach Chrysler how to develop more vehicles with fewer resources.
The strong showing of conventional vehicles in the top twelve is a testament to how serious manufacturers have gotten about recasting these vehicles as fuel-sippers with transmission refinements, weight savings, and sophisticated internal combustion engines.
The first is how often the fleet of vehicles on the roads turns over.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles is evaluating how parents respond to the programs and if they affect driving behavior, said Chuck Conroy, a DMV official who specializes in young drivers.
It's a common occurrence and not indicative of a problem, though it can appear more severe in some vehicles depending on how they are used, the design of their exhaust systems and other factors.
Much more research is needed, she said, about how hybrid owners would use their vehicles.
The objective of the second generation was to gather as much experience as possible about how customers use and charge electric vehicles.
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Do we need OS-level standards in our mobile computing devices that help govern how we use them in moving vehicles (specifically while driving)?
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Tow truck drivers also need better information and training on how to handle hybrids and electric vehicles without receiving an unexpected jolt, the report said.
Changes could include how the NYPD deploys officers and vehicles, he said, and adjustments to the rules for gatherings such as the New York City Marathon, which is scheduled for Nov. 3.
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The study was conducted from February to May of this year, and cars were scored based on how many problems were reported per 100 vehicles.
The four-door 1998 Dodge Ram Quad Cab shows how pickup trucks morphed from utilitarian work vehicles to substitutes for family sedans in America's heartland.
Another hugely controversial issue will be whether, and how, to introduce congestion pricing for vehicles, probably at first in the bottom half of Manhattan.
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The barrier to using the devices in vehicles is no one knows how to carry enough hydrogen, a light and flammable gas that is difficult to compress, to be useful.
Every driver on earth has become accustomed to a certain degree of control over their vehicles, and I wonder how long it would take people to feel comfortable giving that up.
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