Most of the industrialized countries of Europe and North and South America, as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Israel, had clothing and footwear industries capable of meeting virtually all their own needs.
Ford's goal is still to build, at scale, autonomous fleets capable of servicing industries like this one in time for the 2021 time frame, Marakby says, and so figuring out what people want in a delivery or transportation AV, and doing it now while details like vehicle design are still being finalized is important.
Through prior collaboration between researchers and industry partners, the sample size was determined to ensure the study is feasible, yet remains capable of producing industry and policy-relevant results.
But is this industry capable of doing better?
With a home market of only 1.2m cars and total production around 2.2m, the Koreans are building an industry capable of producing over 6m a year by 2000.
The two new plants, Mr. Thelen said, could stimulate a regional auto battery manufacturing and supply industry capable of eventually employing 10,000 people.
Your honest report of how this country dismantled a large illicit-drug industry capable of churning out 250 tonnes of cocaine a year deserves praise.
"We've reached the end of incrementalism," he writes sweepingly, "and only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy".
In an industry capable of making 17 million cars a year, sales have dropped to an annual rate of only 10 million vehicles made here.
Like many manufacturing executives, his economic philosophy is characterized by a belief that heavy investments in technology have left American industry capable of more rapid growth with low inflation than the Federal Reserve Board realizes.
If its function is to kick racing into something that resembles a modern industry, capable of attracting the best talent, regardless of gender, then there is clearly room for action on this subject.
