Japan's Car Industry Is Scrambling To Catch Up On Technology

December 21, 2017

Japanese automakers have been lagging in the technological development of their cars. This lag is affecting the future of Japanese vehicles. We will try to uncover some of the reasons that led this to happen in Japan, a country often viewed as a technological leader of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. Some say that it is not that Japanese automakers lost their touch, but it just might be that other newer automakers have been putting in the extra overtime to develop their vehicles. Let’s find out what happened!

Automakers Face the Technological Revolution

MercoPress

Most automakers never imagined the car industry would change so quickly and as radically as it has. Early automobile inventors, such as Henry Ford and others, surely had no idea that cars would be electric, and neither does anyone else know what is going to come of the electrification process that cars are presently going through. The way we see cars today will soon be part of memories of a distant past when we see the apps becoming mainstream in homes and even our vehicles. This technological revolution requires substantial investments regarding conceptualizing the new trends in many different kinds of technology. Now, even carmakers throughout the word need to do their homework; this is no different for Japanese automakers.

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