Strikes end at Ohio battery plant and Michigan aluminum parts plant
Workers at a Constellium aluminum parts plant near Detroit and a Clarios battery plant near Toledo both voted to ratify new contract agreements Friday after several weeks on strike.
EV maker Nikola laying off 270 employees
The decision will help Nikola reduce personnel-related cash spend by $50 million annually, the company said.
Automated driving features gain acceptance in S&P Global survey
In S&P Global’s survey of 8,000 car shoppers, consumers expected ADAS to be standard in new luxury and mainstream vehicles, yet expressed hesitancy to the use of “autonomous driving systems.”
New Cadillac VP John Roth to meet with dealers as he shapes vision for brand
John Roth, who took over GM’s luxury brand June 1, is meeting with dealers around the U.S. to help shape his plan for Cadillac.
Larry Magid: Using AI and apps for summer travel plans
Now that the pandemic is theoretically over, a lot of people plan to travel this summer. While I don’t know of any apps that can remove traffic from the roads or diminish crowds at airports, there are apps and websites that can help you plan and, hopefully, avoid some of annoyances of busy travel seasons.
In addition to a myriad of useful travel and dining apps, what’s new this year are easy to use artificial intelligence services that can help you plan your trip.
AI is enormously useful
I can’t overstate how helpful these services can be with travel planning. You can’t use them to make reservations, but you can ask questions like “who flies nonstop between SFO and Paris” or “what’s the best way to get from JFK airport to mid-town Manhattan” or “fun things for 10-year-olds to do at Yosemite”
I recently drove from my home in Silicon Valley to my wife’s brother’s house near Sedona, Arizona, and used ChatGPT to plan our route and find interesting stops along the way. It was incredibly useful at pointing out interesting places to stop. I did the same with Google Bard, and it, too, came up with interesting things to do, some of which were different from ChatGPT’s recommendations. Even though it is based on ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing also had different recommendations. So, if you want to get lots of recommendations, use all three free AI chat systems to plan your route.