Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News‘ weekday podcast, July 21-27, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“If there’s a bicyclist or a pedestrian on the side of the road, it may gently help try to steer just ever so slightly away from them or potentially even apply just a little bit of braking before you get to them in a way that’s very subtle, you may not even notice.” — Nick Sitarski, Toyota Motor North America vice president of integrated vehicle systems, on the company’s new driver-assistance systems
“These are great challenges … because it gives us new opportunities to differentiate. And I think as we now get those mainstream [EVs] out there, we’ll start finding other unmet needs.” — Chris Helsel, chief technology officer for Goodyear, on the challenges of supplying tires for electric vehicles
“The Audi brand is just on the dawn of a really large product initiative. It’s actually the largest product initiative we’ve ever seen on the Audi brand ever.” — Hildegard Wortmann, head of marketing and sales for Audi
“We have our own members to represent. We have a different situation in Canada. … We’re going to chart our own course in this bargaining, and we’ll chart our own course as the union that we are.” — Lana Payne, president of Unifor, on the Canadian union’s less-antagonistic approach to contract talks with the Detroit 3 this year
— Listen to these and other shows at autonews.com/dailydrive.