Saturday, July 4, 2009

Best auto technology of the year

It’s not just great car design or green technology that wins prizes in the automotive industry. The PACE Award, sponsored by Automotive News for 15 years, honors superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance among automotive suppliers.
“Historically the ones that are good change the rules of the game. Over time they become must-haves,” says Dr. Bill Sharfman, director of judging for the Automotive News PACE Awards
“One of the things about good or great innovations is that they tell a compelling story and they become familiar.”
Sharfman notes an example: JCI’s HomeLink, a wireless car-to-home communication system that won a PACE Award in 1995. “Now it’s ‘wallpaper’ but at the time no one had seen anything like it before.” read more

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