Metro Detroit competes with Silicon Valley for talent

We've been writing about metro Detroit's need for more engineers for years now. It looks like both the auto industry and localk media are finally catching up. Examine any car made today and it's obvious that the technology that goes into each vehicle requires designers, techniciuans and engineers of the highest caliber. But how to recruit them away from the siren's call of Silicon Valley...

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"More than 30 of GM's 2015 models are equipped with 4G LTE wireless connectivity. Then there's the frontier of intelligent highways, including the pilot project in Ann Arbor that will soon extend closer to Detroit.

Most major automakers have been key players for about a decade in the Consumer Electronics Show that happens in Las Vegas about a week before the Detroit auto show."

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