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Car makers concerned as China sales slow

Automakers worldwide could be affected by slowing revenue benefits in China as dealers see stocks of unsold autos rise, threatening price cuts.

Bloomberg reports the China Vehicle Dealers Association (CADA), which covers Honda, Chery and Geely, is more and more concerned at the achievable price tag cuts that could outcome from carrying more than 45 days of inventory as of the finish of April.

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Apple Patents a Remote Control, Apparently for Cars

May possibly 17, 2012 at 6:14pm by Justin Berkowitz

Apple dash design 626x370 Apple Patents a Remote Control, Apparently for CarsAn iCar? Not yet. But a steering-wheel-mounted remote handle was amongst the 21 patents granted to Apple this week. We do not normally track patent applications and grants for the Cupertino-primarily based tech company—it holds or has filed for thousands of them—and came to this 1 through PatentlyApple.com. The gadget, as Apple describes it in its paperwork, is fairly simple: A disc with conventional iPod controls can be clamped to the steering wheel rim. It could then, we consider it, remotely operate an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.

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