Automotive industry and
technology
A century ago, the mass production of cars caused an explosion in the creation of businesses. First appeared the car manufacturers and their parts, then appeared a variety of businesses derived from the manufacture of cars such as parking, motels and shopping centers outside the city. The cars caused the suburbs to proliferate and the builders and landowners made fortunes. Common engines are being upgraded with modern technologies such as electronic controls, eight-speed transmissions that keep engines working in their optimum range and direct fuel injection, which allows gasoline to burn more efficiently. Combine them with proven technologies such as turbo chargers, and automakers can improve mileage and horsepower simultaneously. Advances also allow automakers to sell more power within a smaller package. The Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang sports models offer V6 engines that generate more than 300 horsepower - a result that was once produced only by larger, gas-hungry V8 engines. A year ago, Ford did not equip his F-150 pickup with anything smaller than a V8. Since Ford began offering high-powered, higher-mileage six-cylinder engines, smaller-engine trucks have made up more than half of the F-150's sales. Automobiles and trucks equipped with four-cylinder engines rose to 49.7% of US sales during the first nine months of 2011, compared to 47% the previous year, according to LMC.
Automotive Revolution
We are currently seeing a new revolution in
wheels on the horizon: cars without a driver. Nobody knows when it will arrive,
according to Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, it will be in
a decade or maybe more. A report from the Michigan Automotive Research Center
concludes that it will arrive sooner than you think, and that when it arrives,
the car with the driver, the one that exists now, will undergo profound
changes. Apple, Google and now Microsoft are launched with new ideas and
partnerships to the car market, and, being honest, there is much that they have
to offer to this. Make Smartphone and car one only; allow automatic driving,
GPS, enable other actions when driving, and so on; they are some among the
countless advantages that are reflected in this alliance. However, the argument
that technology does not only seek immersion in the automotive universe is
valid, it also seeks alliances with sectors such as fashion, health, academia,
the arts; rather: Everything. But none of them has achieved such significant
unions as those achieved with Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Volvo, Audi, General
Motors and others. It will be a matter of time to see the innovations that will
result from these interesting, There are several important points about their
appearance, among them that can save the auto industry from its stagnation.
Hybrid cars
While automakers are using
new and not-so-new technologies to maximize the efficiency of traditional
engines, those that are gasoline-electric hybrids are not favored. Hybrid
vehicles fell at a rate of 2.2% of the US automotive market last year, compared
to 2.4% in 2010, after rebounding to 2.8% in 2009, says research firm LMC
Automotive. The reason is simple: Consumers do not want to pay as much as $
6,000 extra for a hybrid when they can get 0.43 kilometers per liter on the
road using a standard car, such as a Chevrolet Cruze or Hyundai Elantra. And
even more conventional cars with hybrid calibration mileage are arriving this
year, thanks to advances that allow engines to burn up to 20% more efficiently.
Automotive World Expansion
It must be established that post-Fordism protects the return of the specialized worker who had been displaced by Fordism and, with it, pushes the revaluation of qualified personnel that, when combined with the needs of larger amounts of labor, opens the way to the configuration of a capitalist order that it displaces the national by the global. This paradigm symbolizes the transition from the mode of industrial development to the informational (Castells, 2000) which covers the stage of factory restructuring that is defined by combining technological and spatial solutions to the crisis of profitability. The first are those that show the virtuous part of the capital-labor opposition and the second ones that reveal the continuous and growing use of the international labor force, which is used to maintain workers' control undermined by the advance of trade unionism. the developed countries (Silver, 2005: 52). In this way, the displacement of capital to emerging areas is not only explained by the existence of comparative advantages in lagging countries, but also by the introduction of innovations in information and communication technologies that eliminate time and distance costs. Thus, the evolution of the AI, from Fordism to post-Fordism, breaks the generic assumption that an activity consolidated in a given paradigm has in its future an inexorable fall due to the effect of the subsequent technological wave.
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