Carmakers' "clever moves"
The Detroit Car Show is testimony to the close alliances forged between carmakers and IT companies in order to beat Google, report Max H盲gler, Claus Hulverscheidt and Joachim Becker in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. BMW is cooperating with Intel and Israeli sensor specialist Mobileye; BMW, Audi, Mercedes and Intel have forged the Here mapping service alliance; and German carmakers also have agreed to join forces to set up a European fast-charging network. 鈥淯ntil now, everybody thought Google was setting the standards, but that鈥檚 not the case,鈥� industry expert Gabriel Seiberth at business consultancy Accenture told the authors. He said the carmakers have loosened their dependency on Google through a number of recent 鈥渧ery clever moves鈥�. An unnamed German car manager said: 鈥淲e can build an iPhone if we try hard. But they can鈥檛 mass-produce a good car.鈥�
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