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Chung: Grandson ofHyundai s founder
When Hyundai Motor Group s new chairman Chung Eui-sun took over last fall, he outlined a bold road map for a future where flying vehicles and robots make up as much business as typical gas-guzzling cars.
A few months later, he would get a big opportunity to reshape the company along his stated design: a potential deal with Apple Inc. to build driverless cars.
Investors cheered a promising union between Apple, the world s most valuable company, and a new Hyundai with Mr. Chung at the helm.
Groomed his entire life to run the auto empire, Mr. Chung, the 50-year-old grandson of Hyundai s founder, has shirked convention, down to often changing the color on his company car occasionally opting for gold or navy blue instead of keeping the standard-issue black.
it would be interesting for me to find out i m going to do some work on this how many issues of runaway fords and chevys and buicks there were last week when we had the two runaway toyotas. we have the observer effect going on here, where looking at an experiment actually changes it. and so, we see all this media coverage of runaway priuses, and there may be problems in those, but then people see that and they re like, wait a minute, my car feels fudgy, my car fields a bit weird. but yes, obviously, toyota needs to be held accountable for this. the national highway traffic safety administration, the watchdog of toyota and all automakers, needs to be held accountable for this, and that s the use of congress right now kind of turning up the heat on these two. hey, frank, if you do get the stats on anything else, ford, any of the other companies out there, very curious to hear what comes of that. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. frank ahrens. history being made thi
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