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GM volunteers help pack supplies to be shipped to Puerto Rico to aid in the Hurricane Maria recovery.

When Hurricane Maria struckPuerto Rico a little over a monthago, GM engineers mobilized tohelp the U.S. island territory.Hundreds of GM employees

donated more than 12 tons ofgoods, including batteries, solarcellphone chargers and lights,hand sanitizers, disinfectingwipes, bottled water, baby for-

mula and canned foods, said GMFoundation spokeswoman TorriMoncrief.“There were so many people

involved in this project,” saidGM’s NASCAR Program ManagerAlba Colon, who is fromMayaguez, Puerto Rico. “It wouldbe impossible to recognizeeveryone, but we would not have

done this without all those in-volved in planning, leads fromevery area, managers, supervi-sors, teamGM Cares and employ-ees from facilities, docks andtruck drivers. Everyone had animportant role in making thishappen.”

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A quick stop in heavy traffic –it’s one of the most challengingsituations a driver faces, but ithappens regularly, whether it bethe daily rush-hour commute, orarriving for a big sporting eventor concert, or as other driversreact to an ongoing emergency.The rear-end collision is the

most common type of car crashin the United States, the NationalHighway Traffic Safety Adminis-tration says, accounting forabout 35 percent of all crasheseach year.A vehicle travels about 45 feet

(about three car lengths) everysecond at 30 mph, and doublingthe speed doesn’t just doublethe total stopping distance, ittriples it.So, every tenth of a second of

warning and reaction can helpmake the difference between asafe stop and a crash.That’s where modern automo-

tive technology comes in, saidFiat Chrysler spokesman DaleJewett. Several Chrysler, Dodge,Jeep, Ram and Fiat vehicles canbe equipped with forward-look-ing technologies to help detectobstacles in the road ahead, alertthe driver based on speed andclosing rate and, with the mostadvanced system, help slow thevehicle.

Here is a quick look at the sys-tems:• Forward Collision Warning:

Uses radar technology. When thesystem determines a collision isimminent, it triggers a visual andaudio alert to the driver to takeaction and pre-fills the brake sys-tem for instant response whenthe driver steps on the brakepedal. This system is availableon the 2018 Dodge Challenger.• Forward Collision Warning-

Plus: Uses radar and cameratechnology. This system com-bines inputs from the radar andcamera to determine if a colli-sion is imminent. In that event, ittriggers a visual and audio alertto the driver to take action andpre-fills the brake system.If the driver does not respond,

the system momentarily appliesthe brakes to alert the driver. Ifthe driver still does not respondand the obstacle remains, thesystem applies the brakes toslow the vehicle before impact.This system is available on the2018 Chrysler Pacifica, DodgeDurango and Jeep Renegade andGrand Cherokee.• Full-speed Forward Collision

Warning-Plus: Uses radar andcamera technology. This system

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Part of what makes creating asuccessful vehicle for the publicis knowing how people use thatvehicle.And family road trips are a big

part of the American driving ex-perience, said Chevrolet spokes-woman Katie Amann.As millions of Americans werepreparing to hit the road forThanksgiving holiday travel,Amann said a new survey con-ducted by Harris Poll on behalf ofChevrolet reveals that keepingthe kids entertained and hearingthe ever- present “Are we thereyet?” ranked lower than traffic,packing and cost when it comes

to the top family road tripstressors.The Harris Poll surveyed 1,063

U.S. parents of children under 18to explore the state of the Ameri-can family road trip.As traffic levels were projected

to increase during the Thanksgiv-ing travel week, Amann said par-ents indicated that in-vehicletechnologies can improve thefamily road trip experience bymaking gridlock more bearable.Technology offered in vehicles

such as the new Chevrolet Tra-verse can give parents addedpeace and quiet on the road, saidSteve Majoros, director of mar-

keting, Chevrolet Cars andCrossovers.More than half of American

parents (56 percent) said thatWi-Fi/internet connectivity wouldhelp make family road trips moreenjoyable, making it the top in-vehicle tech on their wish list forfamily road trips.“The vehicle is the new family

dinner table, where memoriesare created and bonds growstrong,” said Majoros. “As fami-lies prepare to hit the road thisholiday to spend time withfriends and family, they can de-pend on crossovers like the 2018Chevrolet Traverse and Equinox

to meet their needs, from storagespace to USB outlets, available4G LTE Wi-Fi and Apple CarPlayand Android Auto2 compat-ibility.”

The survey, Majoros said, alsorevealed that, despite stressfulor unexpected moments, the

Harris Poll Study Shows Road-Trip ParentsAre More Stressed by Traffic Than Kids

Survey says: 56 percent of parents say Wi-Fi/internet helps on trips.

For the 10th consecutive year,the Ford Motor Company Fundteamed up with the Detroit AreaAgency on Aging as part of theHoliday Meals on WheelsThanksgiving program.This decade-long partnership

created an opportunity for morethan 6,000 area homebound sen-iors to enjoy a hot ThanksgivingDay meal, said Ford spokes-woman Cheryl Hudson.Ford employees, their families,

and the community came togeth-er at Valley Services located at1980 Bagley in Detroit starting onNov. 22 to assemble freshly pre-pared meals for the community.Ford’s donation of $50,000 toDAAA went toward the food forthe Thanksgiving meals and pro-vides additional funding for thedaily meal service throughoutthe year.“At Ford, we want to help make

sure that no one goes hungry,

especially during the holidayseason,” said Pamela Alexander,director of Community Develop-ment, Ford Motor CompanyFund. “We are proud of ourdecade-long sponsorship ofMeals on Wheels.”Ford Fund also joined with The

Parade Company and GleanersCommunity Food Bank to helpfeed the hungry in southeastMichigan during the holiday sea-son and beyond. Hudson saidthat, according to Gleaners, ap-proximately 670,000 people insoutheast Michigan will facehunger insecurity this year, in-cluding more than 200,000 chil-dren.“As we celebrate with friends,

family and a hot meal this holidayseason, in our community, thereare many isolated and hungryhomebound seniors and disabled

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at 7 p.m. on WADL-TV. Ford willbe a featured sponsor during thetelecast. The additional contri-butions from the community willhelp to ensure that citizens inneed have hot meals throughoutthe holidays and beyond.

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Fans of raw automotive powerhave some good news.The 2018 Dodge Challenger

SRT Demon is out and is soon tobe heading to a drag strip nearyou, said Fiat Chryslerspokesman Dan Reid. TheDodge//SRT started shipping themost powerful muscle car in his-tory earlier this month.Just 3,300 customers (3,000 in

the United States, 300 in Canada)will receive a limited-production,840-horsepower 2018 DodgeChallenger SRT Demon, Reidsaid.It is the industry’s first and

only purpose-built, street-legalproduction drag car, Reid said.Certified by the National Hot

Rod Association as the world’sfastest quarter-mile productionvehicle with an elapsed time of9.65 seconds at 140 miles perhour, the Dodge Challenger SRTDemon is capable of achieving 0-60 mph in 2.3 seconds and is thefirst-ever production car toachieve a front-wheel lift as certi-fied by Guinness World Records.“The people who bought a

Dodge Challenger SRT Demonare performance enthusiasts tothe core, and having a customcar with accessories that im-prove overall performance iscritical,” said Tim Kuniskis, headof Passenger Cars, Dodge SRT,Chrysler and Fiat, FCA NorthAmerica.“With that passion for both

performance and their new limit-ed-production Demon in mind,we’ve pulled together a collec-tion of materials designed to helpthem learn about, track, protectand maintain the newest memberof the family. These accessoriesare designed to build on the ex-clusivity and future collectabilityof this limited-production car.”In the quest for absolute drag

strip domination, engineers re-viewed every part and piece of

the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRTDemon to ensure it provides theultimate in performance.That quest continued on to the

development of accessories,Reid said.The standard one-of-a-kind

Challenger SRT Demon leather-bound track tech manual adds tothe collectability of the car, Reidsaid.Every Demon owner will re-

ceive a collectible leather-boundtrack tech manual written by theeditors of Hot Rod magazine. Thecollector’s book details all of thetechnical components of thequickest, most powerful musclecar in history, said Reid, and in-structs owners on how to set uptheir cars for the track.There is also a Demon Authen-

tication Package available for $1,Reid said. Having documentationthat tracks every stage of eachindividual Demon build adds tothe vehicle’s collectability.Each owner can get the 12 indi-

vidual build sheets that track thebuild of their specific car pack-aged in a hermetically sealedsleeve designed to manage andprotect these important Chal-lenger SRT Demon documents, aswell as a carbon-fiber Certicard;available for $1 as part of aDemon Authentication Package.The Demon Authentication

Package includes:• Build Sheets (12 per car):

These authentic productionbuild sheets document eachChallenger SRT Demon’s uniqueconfiguration and detail everyinch of each vehicle’s assembly.• A Carbon-fiber Certicard.

This card certifies each owner ofthe fastest quarter-mile produc-tion car in the world. The exclu-sive real carbon-fiber card fea-tures the owner’s name, vehicleVIN, serial number and produc-tion option(s) sales codes.• An Archive Portfolio. Pro-

vides safekeeping of all originalChallenger SRT Demon docu-ments.And, Reid said, a Custom Per-

sonalized Demon Car Cover isavailable to protect Demon whenit’s not on the track.Custom-tailored to fit the di-

mensions of the Demon, the satin

stretch indoor cover matches acustomer’s Challenger SRT De-mon paint scheme and has thecustomer’s chosen name embroi-dered above the driver’s door.This car cover is available to

each Dodge Challenger SRTDemon owner at a U.S. MSRP of$695.

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HELSINKI (AP) – Volvo Carssaid Nov. 20 it will sell tens ofthousands of self-driving cars toUber, which is expanding to be-come an operator and owner ofits own car fleet.Volvo said in a statement made

on Nov. 20 that it would providethe San Francisco-based ride-sharing company with its XC90premium SUVs complete withautonomous driving technolo-gies, from 2019 until 2021.The framework deal is non-ex-

clusive.“The automotive industry is

being disrupted by technologyand Volvo Cars chooses to be anactive part of that disruption,’’said Volvo Cars Chief ExecutiveOfficer Hakan Samuelsson afterthe deal was announced.The carmaker, owned by Chi-

na’s Geely Holding since 2010,

didn’t disclose the agreement’svalue or the precise number ofvehicles.Media reports suggest Uber is

planning on buying up to 24,000autonomous vehicles from thecompany.The deal is based on an al-

liance Volvo announced withUber last year when the twocompanies said they would col-laborate on developing self-dri-ving cars, pledging to invest acombined $300 million to theproject.Jeff Miller, Uber’s head of auto

alliances, said Nov. 20 the com-pany was “thrilled” to expand itspartnership with Volvo.“This new agreement puts us

on a path towards mass pro-duced self-driving vehicles atscale,” Miller said in a joint state-ment with Volvo.Volvo Cars key manufacturing

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TOKYO (AP) – Nissan MotorCo. Chief Executive HirotoSaikawa and other executives ofthe Japanese automaker are re-turning a part of their salaries toshow remorse over illegal vehi-cle inspections at the automak-er’s plants in Japan.Saikawa did not say how big

the pay cuts would be or whoelse would take them. He said“voluntary return of a part of hispay” started last month and willcontinue through March 2018,the end of the fiscal year.On Nov. 17, Nissan submitted

to the government a report on itsinvestigation into the scandal. Itsaid the investigation foundworkers in training, not author-ized to carry out inspections,were routinely conducting thetests, borrowing and using the“hanko,” or traditional Japaneseseals that often are used in lieuof signatures, of certified per-sonnel.The faulty inspections affect

only vehicles sold in Japan, not

exports. Because of the prob-lems, Nissan is recalling morethan a million vehicles for fur-ther inspections.Saikawa said it was puzzling

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GM has a lot of buildingsaround the world, which canmake it difficult for people to findwhere they’re supposed to go.That’s why employee Keith

Fry, at one of the Tech Center’s“Geek Week” sessions, suggestedcreating an app that could bedownloaded to smartphones,tablets and PCs. This app wouldgive people directions and howto book conference rooms.Bob Ronald, director of End

User Adoption at the Tech Cen-ter, said “Geek Week” sessionsare designed to give employees achance to pitch ideas to improveproductivity at GM.Having a room locator app

makes sense when one considersthat GM has about 6,000 confer-ence rooms at its various sitesaround the world, Ronald said.And GM is hiring more peopleand constructing new buildings,“so the problem is not goingaway anytime soon,” he said.“You have to remember, a lot

of our conference rooms aren’teven numbered. We might have aconference room in Korea that isnamed ‘Tahoe’ after the vehicleGM makes.”Ronald said they’ve been

working on the app, officiallycalled RoomFinder, for abouta year-and-a-half. It’s now avail-able for download to smart-phones, tablets and personalcomputers.In addition to telling people

where conference rooms are, it

also tells app users when roomsare available and what resourcesare in the room. If a room is avail-able at the right time, the appshows the room in green. If not,the app shows red.So if a group of engineers

needs video equipment, the apptells them which rooms are bestand when they’re available.Because the app is available to

all, the information generatedthrough the app is available toall, Ronald said. That makes iteasy for people to determinewho has the right to use a partic-ular conference room. Nothinghas to be cleared through somebusy office manager.And, said Valerie Rosnik,

manger of End User Develop-ment at GM, the app makes itpossible for a group of people topick the conference room that isbest suited for all attending par-ties. Some group meetings in-volve different people in differentdepartments who work in differ-ent parts of a building or evendifferent buildings.The RoomFinder app makes it

easy to find a room that is relativelyclose to all parties, Rosnik said.The biggest obstacle to creat-

ing the app, Ronald said, is mak-ing sure the app developers hadaccurate maps of all the build-ings GM owns and operates.Besides having accurate maps,

app developers also had to makesure all the maps were presentedin the same format, so they couldbe accessed by app users.“This had to be done site by

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This rare Carbon 65 Corvette will be auctioned off this coming January.

The Chevrolet has a storiedand valuable history, a historythat will help American’s veter-ans.GM and Chevrolet are teaming

up with the George W. Bush Pres-idential Center to honor andsupport those who have servedand sacrificed to protect the se-curity and freedom of all Ameri-cans, said GM spokeswomanAfaf Farah.At 4:30 p.m. PST on Saturday,

Jan. 20, 2018, Chevrolet will offerthe first retail productionCorvette Carbon 65 Editioncoupe, signed by PresidentGeorge W. Bush, for auction atBarrett-Jackson in Scottsdale,Ariz., said Farah.The money raised will benefit

the Bush Center’s Military Serv-ice Initiative.The Military Service Initia-

tive’s primary goal is ensuringthat post-9/11 veterans and theirfamilies make successful transi-tions to civilian life, with a focuson gaining meaningful employ-ment and overcoming the invisi-ble wounds that are left by war,Farah said.With more than 6,000 veterans

employed at GM and more than50,000 GM retirees who are vet-erans, Farah said GM andChevrolet are proud to helpthose who have given so muchfor their country.The first Corvette rolled out of

the factory on June 30, 1953.Chevrolet is commemorating

the 65th anniversary of thatauspicious debut with a newtrack-inspired Corvette CarbonEdition 65 package offeredon 2018 Grand Sport and

Z06 models of the Corvette.Limited to only 650 vehicles,

each with a unique vehicle iden-tification number, the distinctivepackage blends visible carbon-fiber exterior elements similar tothe Corvette Racing C7.R with anew Ceramic Matrix Gray exteri-or color and unique interior ap-pointments that include a newcarbon-fiber-rimmed steeringwheel.Vehicle Content:• Available on Grand Sport3LT and Z06 3LZ trims (order code Z30);

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Auction of Special CorvetteTo Help American Veterans

The giving didn’t start or stopthere, Moncrief said. When Hur-ricane Harvey was barrelingdown in Texas, Dallas-Fort Wortharea employees collected trail-ers full of items and deliveredthem to nonprofit organizationsin the impacted areas along thecoast.Also in Texas, 30 employees

helped families clean theirhomes of debris and start the re-building process as part of theHabitat Hammers Back cam-paign launch.“I had the opportunity to vol-

unteer, so I jumped on it,” saidShawn Angel, District AfterSalesmanager in Katy, Texas.And, Moncreif said, 25 employ-

ees from General Motors’ AtlantaIT Innovation Center partneredwith other companies to gathersaws, hammers, tape and otheritems to help families in PuertoRico repair the damage to theirhomes.

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Myers, left, and Rooker in front of the Smart House GMC helped build.

In support of its partnershipwith the Stephen Siller Tunnel toTowers Foundation and the foun-dation’s Building for America’sBravest (BFAB) program, GMCunited U.S. Army Staff Sgt. EricMyers and U.S. Army MedicSteven Rooker for the first timesince a life-changing day fiveyears ago.

In 2012, Myers, from Linden,N.C., was serving his third de-ployment in Afghanistan with the82nd Airborne Division when hestepped on an IED, said GMspokeswoman Jennie Ecclestone.

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Rooker and Myers had notseen each other since that fatefulday until GMC in mid-Novemberbrought the two veterans backtogether, Ecclestone said.

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As a primary sponsor of theBuilding for America’s Bravestprogram, GMC has pledged morethan $2 million in 2017, Eccle-stone said, toward buildingsmart homes for catastrophicallyinjured service members.

GMC also regularly supportsthe Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tow-ers Foundation, the parent foun-dation for Building for America’sBravest, to raise awareness forthe injured veterans.

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GMC is working to raise an ad-ditional $1 million through theend of 2017 to build more smarthomes for our most catastrophi-cally injured service membersEcclestone said.

GMC Program Unites VetWith Man Who Saved His Life

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) – Shestarted in go-karts when she was10, and was a national championtwo years later. By the time Dani-ca Patrick turned 16, she was onher own in Europe, pursuing aracing career.Patrick was a fearless woman

in a sport almost exclusivelycomprised of male drivers. Sheraced hard, sparred with her ri-vals off the track and rarelyflinched while becoming one ofthe most recognizable athletesin the world. Her tough-girl per-sona almost never cracked inpublic.When it came time to an-

nounce her retirement, with hermother, father, sister, brother-in-law, boyfriend and support teamwatching from the back of acrowded room at Homestead-Miami Speedway on the after-noon of Nov. 17, Patrick brokedown in tears.“I feel like this is where my life

should be headed, and some-times we just get kind of nudgedthere,” she began. “Sometimesit’s big nudges and sometimesit’s little.”The 35-year-old Patrick

paused several times to com-pose herself to announce thatshe will race only in the Daytona500 and the Indianapolis 500next year and then she will walkaway from a sport where suc-cess was elusive even as shegrew into a superstar with multi-ple labels, not the least of whichwas savvy businesswoman.Patrick has known for at least

a month that she will end her ca-reer next season at the Indi-anapolis 500, a decision that willbring her full circle and returnher one last time to the storiedtrack that made her famous.Discussing her decision with

The Associated Press a few hoursbefore her announcement,Patrick was giddy with excite-ment and thrilled at the chanceto take one more spin around In-dianapolis Motor Speedway.Patrick told AP it took her

many months to come to the re-alization her career is all butover.Once she accepted it, she be-

gan putting together plans for“The Danica Double” over thelast several weeks.“Nothing that was being pre-

sented excited me, then aboutthree weeks ago, I just blurtedout, ‘What about Indy? Let’s endit with the Indy 500,’” she said.

Famed RacerDanica Patrick

To Retire in 2018

operates with all the capabilitiesof Forward Collision Warning-Plus.In addition, if the driver does

not respond to the alerts, thebraking system may bring the ve-hicle to a full stop when the colli-sion threat is detected at speedsless than 25 mph. This system isavailable on the 2018 Chrysler300, Dodge Charger, Jeep Com-pass and Cherokee and Fiat 500X.“As a driver, avoiding distrac-

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spirit of the American familyroad trip remains alive and well.The vast majority of Americanparents (93 percent) say they en-joy road trips with their family,with more than half (53 percent)saying they “love” them.

The top reasons for America’slove affair with family road trips?Chevrolet and Harris Poll findthat spending time with family(80 percent) ranked as parents’favorite thing about road trips,followed by exploring and stop-ping at interesting locations/des-tinations (69 percent).

Besides the previous statistics,the following results are basedon the survey:

Nearly three in 10 parents whotake family road trips but do nothave Wi-Fi/internet connectivityin their car say they would bemore likely to take longer (29percent) or more frequent (28percent) family road trips if theirvehicle had Wi-Fi/connectivity.

Of those who do have Wi-Fi/in-ternet connectivity in their cars,more than half of parents whotake road trips said they aremore likely to take longer (54percent) or more frequent (56percent) family road trips be-cause of the feature.

Kids like spending time on theroad with their families as well:90 percent of parents who takeroad trips say their kids also en-joy time on the road.

About 86 percent of Americanparents who took road tripswhen they were growing up saythey have “a lot of fond memo-ries” from childhood that tookplace on family road trips, in-cluding nearly half (49 percent)who strongly agree.

The poll also showed that fam-

ily time and new explorationsdrive America’s love of roadtrips.

Unplugging from everyday life(49 percent), indulging in foodsand snacks (44 percent) and be-ing out on the open road (45 per-cent) round out the top fivefavorite parts of taking familyroad trips.

What stresses parents out themost on family road trips? TheHarris poll stated it’s not thekids, according to the survey.Traffic and other unexpected de-lays is by far the most stressfulpart of the family road trip, ac-cording to nearly two in threeparents (63 percent).

Only about one in four parents(26 percent) are most stressedby getting asked, “Are we thereyet?” and just under one in three(31 percent) find it stressful tokeep the kids entertained.

When asked, “Is there a “per-fect” road trip length?” the con-sensus is yes, according to thesurvey. American parents whotake road trips believe that the“perfect” family road trip lengthis typically six hours.

And parents who take roadtrips today bring 6.6 mobile de-vices, on average, in the vehicle.

Which wheels are best? Nearlytwo-thirds of all American par-ents (63 percent) say they wouldprefer to take a family road tripin an SUV over any other type ofvehicle, with more than two infive (42 percent) preferring alarge SUV with three rows.

And 67 percent of parents whotake road trips involve their chil-dren in the planning.

Chevrolet vehicles, Majorossaid, provide families with tech-nology that meets what the sur-vey says most concerns driverson road trips.

Study: Road-Trip ParentsMost Stressed by Traffic


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