Up until now, one rear view and two side view mirrors have been a necessity in order to legally operate a vehicle, thus promoting safer driving habits. With this newer auto technology of rear view and side view cameras, mirrors could one day soon be permanently replaced.
A handful of automotive manufacturers including Volkswagen, GM, Toyota, and Tesla have officially petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for this change over, spinning off of the new requirement that all vehicles under 10,000 lbs produced from May 1, 2018 onward must be equipped with backup cameras.
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Safety,
Automotive Technology
The effects of database design decisions regarding the acquisition and storage of decoded inventory data can be far reaching. Mistakes early on can lead to poor database performance and sluggish load times for your users. They can lead to a tangled web of database tables that is difficult and expensive for your programmers and database developers to keep straight, and near impossible for new team members to learn. And, they can lead to poor use of data and missed opportunities to display thorough, accurate, and precise information about vehicles in inventory.
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Motorcycles offer a great deal of joy and freedom for their riders. However, riding a motorcycle carries with it risks, so most serious riders desire good insurance coverage. For convenience and the best policy rates, many riders go online for quotes on motorcycle insurance. There is plenty of competition out there among websites offering these types of quotes. If your company provides motorcycle insurance quotes, you need a way to stand out from the crowd.
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Topics:
VIN,
Safety,
Insurance
Incorporating VIN decoding enhances online shopping and sales.
For online businesses that handle vehicle sales, car parts, automobile accessories, or just about anything car-related, you know there is plenty of competition out there. Competing successfully online requires more than just good pricing. You need to differentiate your offering and online experience to make it stand out. By integrating advanced vehicle data and VIN decoding into your customer's online experience, you can create an advantage over your competition's online offerings. The VIN can be used to pull information on the vehicle and provide back to the customer a custom set of offers focused on the vehicle your customer owns.
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Marketing
Yesterday at the Apple 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC), Apple announced the forthcoming iOS 7 along with a slew of new features (including a UI overhall).
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Topics:
Auto Manufacturers,
Automotive,
Vehicle Equipment
Online quotes have revolutionized the world of car insurance, by providing multiple quotes, quickly, from different carriers. This has created an environment where consumers shop around for the lowest premium possible and may do so as frequently as once or twice a year. As a result, there is a consistent demand for online quoting, both from the insurers directly as well as from third party sites that provide quote comparison tools, and an increase in competition.
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Topics:
Auto Portals,
Automotive Data,
Vehicle,
VIN,
Insurance,
Auto Manufacturers
VIN Decoding Large Commercial Vehicles
The medium-duty and heavy-duty truck segments offer unique challenges to VIN decode properly. Almost all commercial trucks offer many options to significantly customize and up-fit the vehicle. These options and up-fits include everything from engines and transmissions to axles, cab types and body types, all of which can substantially change the details and specifications of the vehicle. (For more information on the challenges of decoding large trucks see our article “VIN Decoding Outside the Light-Duty Segment”.) The customized nature and complexity of these vehicle segments has contributed to their being few commercial VIN Decoding solutions available for large trucks.
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VIN
Never before have there been more ways for auto dealers to market inventory to customers - who are able to take advantage of unprecedented availability of vehicle data and methods of comparison shopping.
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Topics:
Automotive Data,
Marketing,
VIN,
Safety,
Vehicle Valuations
Like an individual fingerprint unique to each person, the Vehicle Identification Number is unique to each individual vehicle. And just like the federal government maintains a database of fingerprints in order to access information on individuals registered in the system quickly and accurately, a VIN database can also access a wealth of information on each vehicle in the system in a quick, organized, and easy manner.
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Topics:
Logistics,
Automotive Data,
Vehicle,
VIN
Wikipedia defines a "car dealership" as a business that sells new or used cars at the retail level. If you asked most people who own or work for dealerships, or even consumers, to define what dealerships do, the majority would start by saying "They sell cars". It is the selling of new and used vehicles that defines a dealership and is it greatest source of revenue. Most of the effort put forth by the business is to capture vehicle sales, and with good cause.
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Parts & Services
