Here's a look back at some moments involving people and the automotive industry from 2018.
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Monday, December 31, 2018
The assembly tricks that give Japan Inc. an edge
Japanese assembly lines are populated with shortcuts that can improve things in sometimes comically clever ways. Toyota thinks they're serious business and can help give it an upper hand against new rivals from China and Silicon Valley.
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2018 Photos of the year: Politics
Here's a look back at some moments between the auto industry and government officials.
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In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018 (Aria Thaker/Quartz)
In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018 — After almost a decade since its launch, India's controversial biometric identity programme, Aadhaar, finally got a measure …
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Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking (Shannon Bond/Financial Times)
Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking — There is space for scores of people in a section of Uber's office in downtown Phoenix but on a recent weekday morning only a handful …
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Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a "minimum viable product" made good progress (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress — Big companies struggled but small ones moved forward. — As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high:
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How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities (Eric Bellman/Wall Street Journal)
How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities — The retailer is targeting hundreds of millions of new online shoppers in India's countryside by adding Hindi and videos …
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