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Autonomous trucking will soon transform not just our freeways but the entire global supply chain. But serious issues of safety, workforce changes, and policy remain. Currently the Director of Business Development at trucking giant Navistar, Paula Bejarano knows better than…
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Anne Cocquyt grew up in the heart of Germany’s peerless culture of order and engineering, in the automotive manufacturing hub of Baden-Württemberg, home to Mercedes and Porsche. Her family pushed Christian values, academic education, and community service – right down…
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Hugo Eccles grew up with a “petrol-head” amateur race car driver dad who ignited his passion for cars and motorcycles. When Eccles wasn’t “running wild” in the bucolic English countryside, he sketched cars with his grandmother, the prelude to his…
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Growing up in the shadow of Boeing in Seattle in the early aughts, Jacob Klinginsmith was destined for a career in aeronautics. From the age of fifteen, he was the “default autopilot” in his grandfather’s Cessna, racking up flight miles…
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