My 2015 Mazda6 has its infotainment screen in the dash. The 2016 models “upgraded” to the floating screen. Amazing how faddish automotive design can be. Will the “floating” screens be the tail fins of the late teens?

“By utilizing additive and electron-beam welding manufacturing methods – and removing the constraints of traditional manufacturing techniques – we are able to deliver a higher-performing system, requiring fewer parts, which also offers cost advantages to our customers,” O’Connor added.

Buildings in the region were framed balloon style: Builders threw up two-by-fours around the perimeter, then tied the floors into each story. That’s different from housing construction today, which is platformed: You build an eight-foot wall, build the floor on top of it, then tie it into the wall. You build the next floor on top of that. Every platform is effectively a fire-stop. In a balloon-frame structure, a fire that starts in the basement and gets into the chase space can run all the way to the cockloft—the cramped, unusable space between the topmost ceiling of a building and the roof—without any fire-stop in between. It will blow straight out the roof before any of the floors in between catch fire. A basement fire effectively turns the entire building into a chimney.

Shares of General Electric retreated 1.9% to 10.28 on the stock market today, still above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. While GE stock is in a base with a potential 11.85 buy point, the entry is well below prior highs.

Mutual aid wasn’t designed for this kind of situation. Rather than sharing resources, the three towns are effectively competing for them.

After backing off in March from pushing a countywide one-cent specific sales tax, Supervisor Joe Chimenti on Tuesday asked fellow board members to consider restarting talks about a tax ballot measure.

Executive Summary: It gives a summary of key studies, market growth rate, competitive landscape, market drivers, trends, and issues, and macroscopic indicators.

The tablet-on-dash design gets a lot of flak for the way it looks, but in practice it is excellent. You just…look over. Your eyes don’t stray far from the road. With a screen-in-dash, you have to look down (and away from the road) at the dashboard.

To share detailed information about the key factors influencing the growth of the market (growth potential, opportunities, drivers, industry-specific challenges and risks).

They can also see what’s ahead, behind, overhead, side-to-side and pretty much anywhere else around the truck. 

But let’s go back to LiveTrack for a second. One only has to look at my Facebook post or my recent Garmin Live Event Sharing post to see that the vast majority of comments are on people’s semi-unrelated LiveTrack failures.

Although we can’t confirm it, some reports also suggest that the number of bodystyles offered is set to be reduced, with the three-door and wagon models facing the axe.