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As the car company’s president, he made decisions quickly and shook things up, expanding overseas manufacturing and introducing the Prius, a milestone in automotive history.Hiroshi Okuda sitting in the newly developed Prius in 1997. He pressed Toyota to finish the car, which had been in development for years, as other companies raced to be the first to introduce a hybrid.

Andy Green, a 64-year-old retired Royal Air Force pilot from Britain, was already the only person to break the sound barrier on land. “The ground comes at you very, very quickly,” he said.Members of the JCB engineering team celebrated the record.

Mark Reuss became the automaker’s president seven years ago, ascending to a role his father was fired from decades before. We got the chance to speak with him.“We have not stopped producing any of our electric vehicles,” Mark Reuss, the General Motors president, said in an interview. “We believe in the sustainability piece of this.”

In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.A Flock Safety license plate reader in Addison, Texas — one of 120,000 cameras the country has deployed around the country.

As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.Waymo driverless cars are in San Francisco and 14 other metropolitan areas, including Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Tampa.