Actions Speak Louder Than Words - General Motors
GM’s executives then were so gun-shy they never went near a reporter without a phalanx of public relations people. Likewise, it was virtually impossible for journalists to talk with GM engineers, designers, or product planners without public relations guards standing close by.
It still seems to take forever and a day to make a product decision over there.
But I came for more than a chance to hang out with the girls and boys and check out the toys. I wanted to see the new GM, versus the troubled old giant I began covering in 1982.
Here, I drove GM’s concept Hy-wire fuel cell model, which also dispenses with most conventional mechanical linkages in turning its wheels. The Hy-wire quite literally is a sensory vehicle — employing sensors to start, steer, accelerate, and stop — among other things.