American auto industry trends are due for a major face lift: it’s about time!
American auto industry trends are due for a major face lift: it’s about time!
With the three big American auto manufacturers, traveling to Washington D.C. by private jet, presenting legislators with a gigantic tin cup into which they want tens of billions of dollars to flow, it must be clear to the majority of the public, that the American auto manufacturers have run their businesses into the ground through poor management, bad planning and overflowing greed on the part of executives. It’s well past time to either give themselves a major face lift, or step aside and let some of the many innovative Americans step in with solutions that work! The auto industry trends that have been practiced in the last decades have produced a burden on the taxpayers that will reverberate for decades.
While they’ve been talking about future auto industry trends, such as hybrids, green energy and more fuel efficient cars, not much has actually changed in what’s available in the auto market today. The hybrids, while being a step in the right direction, are far too costly for the average car buyer. Besides, with the auto industry trends of the future up in the air, not many consumers are willing to bank on the hybrid as the best possible solution.
American auto makers have been talking up green energy for at least a decade, with nothing to show. Algae, corn and soy have been bandied about as possible clean-burning fuels, but again, no results. While other, less developed nations have managed to have cars adapted to green energy over the past decade, American auto industry trends stuck with oil. Surely, American automobile designers have the wherewithal to have done the same.
Not too long ago, we were told that as Americans, we were ‘addicted’ to oil! This is a red herring if ever I saw one. Did we have a choice? America is a huge country, but those in charge of the infrastructure did not see fit to build efficient transportation systems, such as a rail system, powered by hydroelectric sources, criss-crossing the nation.
Here’s a short list of American auto industry trends this taxpayer would like to see put in place.
The ideal American car might be small, but with a sturdy frame. For those who need a larger car, ditto on the sturdy frame for safety, in case of an accident. These vehicles would be economical to run on green or electric power – something other than oil. This ideal car design would be both reliable and economical to fix, with fewer computerized doo-dads and engine parts. Doing away with planned obsolescence would be nice! How about parts you can reach, without taking the whole thing apart? Instead of opening your hood to find a mass of wires resembling a dish of spaghetti, why not wrap them in relevant groups and not have them laying on the engine, where they eventually get fried? We could all probably live with a standardized reflector or brake light cover in a plain shape that wouldn’t cost $50 to replace!
As for GPS equipment, there are now hand held GPS devices. Currently, those non-portable GPS systems in cars, should they break, can cost more than the car is worth to repair!
These are the auto industry trends I’d like to see put in their plan. It can’t happen soon enough!
Tags: Business, Cars, Design, Men
