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No rest for the weary.

Publication: Automotive Design & Production
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Given that this is a monthly magazine, it is perilous to try to write something of a predictive nature vis-a-vis the auto industry today. It may be that no sooner do I put the final period to this that it turns out that there has been an industry-shaking change that undercuts any speculation or observation that I might make. The speed at which change has been occurring of late brings to mind the early portion of the filmed version of The Right Stuff, when pilots were attempting to break the sound barrier. Some of them were fatally unsuccessful. And it even looked, for a time, that Chuck Yeager wasn't going to make it, either. But he did breakthrough to the other side. And things turned...

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