It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it's a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.
The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.
The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.
There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
When you got mechanisms in a car that prevent damage from happening to the engine and that operate under very specific circumstances, those things are exceptions under normal operating conditions of the car; under the rules, they need to be disclosed.
Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.
You know what? Starting a car company is risky.
I don't want to be the king, 'I don't need that, I want to race even without the helmet, I am the king.' I am not like that. I just want to make things better for the drivers and for the safety.
The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.
The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
I probably have a very controversial view on autonomous driving versus anybody else in the auto industry. I don't believe that it makes any sense for an automaker to develop autonomous driving.
