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Findsyoucars.com returns to the market – Motor Trade News

Online car buying and selling site Findsyoucars.com has returned to the market following a significant investment.

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The site enables people to advertise for the car they want to buy and generates genuine sales leads for car dealers by matching buyers with sellers, based on their ability to meet the buyers’ requirements.

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Commenting on the move, CEO Guy Walker (pictured) said, “With such a buoyant market place, we decided that the time was right to re-launch our much improved service.

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“Car buyers are extremely savvy; they thoroughly research the market place and have identified exactly what car model and specification they want to buy.”

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Joining Findsyoucars.com is James Woodhead, who takes up the role of head of sales. He has previously worked for Trader Media Group as and Manheim Europe.

Findsyoucars.com is looking to sign up car dealers nationwide to help fulfill buyer requirements. Dealers can register to receive buyer alerts without signing up to a lengthy and costly contract.

Findsyoucars.com will operate flexible charging options for franchise and independent dealers.

 

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Toyota unveils cars with auto pilot

Tokyo (AFP) – Toyota on Friday unveiled the next generation of cars featuring an auto pilot system that will swerve to avoid collisions and also keep to the middle of the road, all without drivers touching the wheel.

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The Japanese giant autos using the self-driving technology could be available on the market in just a few years’ time.

“These advanced driving support technologies prevent human errors, reduce driving stress and help drivers avert accidents, which has a big potential to reduce the number of traffic deaths,” Toyota managing director Moritaka Yoshida said at a presentation in Tokyo.

Leading automakers and technology firms, including Toyota, rival Nissan and Internet giant Google, have been working on self-driving and assisted-driving technology for years.

Toyota, the world’s biggest automaker, said that while drivers would still need to be alert and take part in the driving process, it essentially lets them put the vehicle on auto-pilot, leaving most of the work to the computer system.

Toyota Motor demonstrates the advanced driving support system “Automated Highway Driving Assist” in  …

The Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA) system lets vehicles communicate wirelessly to avoid running into each other while keeping the car in the middle of the road lane — no matter how many twists and turns lie ahead.

“Cars with these technologies recognise the accelerating or slowing speed of those ahead, which also helps avoid traffic jams,” said project manager Mitsuhisa Shida. “They can wirelessly exchange data once every 0.1 seconds.”

The company plans to install AHDA in its commercial models over the next few years.

Toyota has already introduced the pre-collision braking assist system in its Lexus luxury sedan and plans to install it in other models by 2015, with the other technologies to follow.

Many cars already have systems that gives drivers a panoramic view to keep watch for nearby objects while parking itself.

The latest collision-avoidance system has doubled the detection time of oncoming objects to four seconds from a previous two seconds, Toyota added.

The automaker said such advances would be especially helpful for older people. Japan’s society is rapidly ageing with over-65s already making up around a quarter of the 128 million-strong population.

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Our comments on this article. 

People are continually showing clever systems to drive a car automatically from A to B in some desperate way to bring the future to the present in one jump.

In reality, progress is in small steps and trust Toyota to come up with a practical way to start to incorporate this technology into the way people currently drive cars.

As opposed to saving effort and trying to lie back and relieve the burden on the driver or promises to safe time by avoiding jams, this promises to be a real benefit in crash avoidance and making driving safer.

Toyota have every incentive to make this work so that there cars are safer but the people who should be lobbying hard for this are the insurance companies who pay out for fender benders and crashes, which would undoubtedly be reduced if all cars had these systems.

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Birmingham based FindsYou.com secures £400,000 investment to shake up online search market.

A new e-commerce platform which matches car buyers with relevant dealers has secured £450,000 investment from Finance Birmingham, the funding arm of Birmingham City Council, and Ascension Ventures, the UK’s first Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.

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FindsYou.com, which is operated from Birmingham’s Custard Factory, is set to overhaul the way we search for services online, letting buyers tell the market what they want to purchase in a managed and secure way and matching them with vetted suppliers that can meet their exact requirements. It delivers results that are 100% relevant, tailored and personal in the same way as a professional tender process.

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The investment deal is the first to involve a local equity fund and the new Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, two spokes to the UK’s investment incentive wheel. The company will raise a further £100,000 through the Enterprise Investment Scheme in the near future.

Starting in the UK cars sector, the FindsYou matching engine will spread to other sectors in due course.

Guy Walker, CEO of FindsYou.com, said: “The web provides huge choice but it still takes a long time to find things to buy and often leads to missed opportunities. FindsYou.com is a service that allows consumers to match their request with relevant suppliers who’ve got exactly what the buyer is looking for, using our technology to cut out the legwork.

“This investment will enable us to roll the platform out across multiple sectors, creating new jobs at our Birmingham office over the next twelve months and help keep the region at the forefront of digital technological innovation in the UK.”

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Sam Miller, Investment Executive at Finance Birmingham commented: “FindsYou.com has the potential to effectively change the way consumers search for services online, providing real choice rather than simple lead generation. The current demand for this type of platform, and the potential for development across multiple services, makes FindsYou a great example of the entrepreneurial activity Finance Birmingham is funding across the region.

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Sanjay Wadhwani, CEO of Ascension Ventures commented “Ascension Ventures was very keen on this business as it’s led by a top entrepreneur who’s keen to disrupt the search market and launch an innovative new e-commerce platform that will be relevant across multiple markets.”

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