Re: what to say in gothenborg or detroit?

Hi,

The car industry must innovate or it will die, taking along the bailout
money and its employees. The problem is that they don't want to
innovate, or they forgot how to do it. They should start spending more
on R&D and checking out what happened to Polaroid (on the bad side)
and Nikon (on the good side) of photography, or Olivetti and others for
typewriters... they can also meet up with book publishers who are
reluctant to invest more on e-paper product development (the current
e-paper readers are just crap), and with those who are really getting
into it.

In summary: The problem is that no one has the answers, and the money
needed to come up with those answers is being given to the industry
which is least probable to come up with creative solutions!!!

Happy new year!

Carlos.

Ian Fiddies wrote:

Governments
around the world are bailing out their car manufacturers, this is not
good.

I
am
an anti car campainger. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden's Detroit. Volvo
is the largest employer in the region if you count the other firms
that make the car bits. If the car industry suddenly goes to the dogs
here, it will result in serious local social problems. Social
problems on the same scale as those caused by local car use. I feel
it would be useful to come with well thought out suggestions as to
how the car industry could shift their production to a better
product.

Is
there anybody on this list that can give me clear ideas on how to go
forward? Others in car industry heavy areas maybe. Tool on and build
wind turbines is one common suggestion, but how...

Persuading
car makers that it is more profitable to make other things instead
of cars is one way forward that has hardly been discussed on this
list. Yet

/Ian
Fiddies

Skype- ianfiddies

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