Top News:
- Uber plans to lure Indians out of cars – FT: Ride-hailing company hopes to chauffeur rising middle class
- Jeep hacker leaves Twitter – Automotive News: The security researcher who hacked into a moving Jeep earlier this year has resigned as an engineer at Twitter after three years on the job, a person familiar with the matter said.
- JAPAN: Suzuki plans first full hybrid – Just-auto: Suzuki Motor has announced it would launch its first full hybrid vehicle as early as next December.
- Survey: Recalls make Americans less satisfied with cars – Detroit News: Americans are less happy with their cars and trucks than at any time in more than a decade because of recalls
- Toyota’s 2016 Prius gets a makeover to look hipper – Fortune: Spy photos of the new Prius reveal a much different look.
- BRAZIL: GM strike ends as Mercedes truck workers walk – Just-auto: A strike over job cuts at a General Motors plant in Brazil has ended but trouble has now broken out at a Mercedes factory in the country.
- Toyota says testing potential alternatives to Takata air-bag inflators – Reuters: Reuters had last week reported that Toyota would buy 13 million inflators from Nippon Kayaku to reduce its risk from Takata’s airbags, which are at the…
- Volkswagen to launch the project of budget car, FAW Jilin to seize the opportunity to prosper – Automotive News: According to the latest news, Volkswagen is planning to launch the project of budget car manufacture in the new production site of FAW Jilin.
- Driverless Robot From Hitachi May Replace Workers in Warehouses – Bloomberg: The number of industrial robots in use has risen to 1.6 million as of 2013 since General Motors first put one on an assembly line in 1961, according to…
- Lexus rises to No. 1 in customer satisfaction study – Automotive News: Lexus overtook Mercedes-Benz to come out on top in a recent U.S. customer satisfaction study while recalls and rising prices across the industry are driving down average new-vehicle customer satisfaction scores.