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| |  Keeping Boomers Behind the Wheel As this huge group ages, they'll need help to keep from becoming hazardous drivers. Luckily, carmakers are gearing up already Smarter Cars Are Safer Cars A wide range of different technologies are heading to market with one aim: To make driving a lot less death-defying or even dangerous Coming to a Dashboard Near You Auto designers are simplifying confusing, feature-crammed displays to help older drivers. Here are some innovations to look forward to A Dark Start for Night Vision in Autos Though the technology has great promise, it's still quite pricey and not driver-friendly enough. New approaches may soon change that Change the Oil, Upgrade the Software Deep under the hood of BMW's iDrive system is a Java engine that allows the car's programming to be continually kept up to date | |
 MARKETINGCan Caddy's Driver Make GM Cool?Mark LaNeve is out to put the verve back in the carmaker's sluggish brand (9/20/04)ASIAN BUSINESSChina: Letting Up On The GasAs Chinese sales slump, world carmakers dial back their forecasts (9/20/04)INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENTFord to Suppliers: Let's Get CozierParts makers are building factories dedicated to a single assembly plant (9/20/04)NEWS ANALYSISIntelligent Conversation -- with Your CarHonda and IBM are teaming to bring a far-more-capable voice-recognition system to three 2005 models. Ask, and it shall answer (9/1/04)THE EXECUTIVE LIFECars to LoveBusinessWeek's picks of the wheels that do more than just get you around (8/30/04) | |
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