United States, Dec. 4 -- Nestled toward the northwest corner of the GM Global Technical Center campus in Warren, Michigan sits the Charles Kettering Research & Development (R&D) headquarters - a place where many disruptive technologies were born. From the first electrical ignition system to "robonauts" and Lunar Terrain vehicle technologies developed with NASA, the innovations born out of Kettering R&D have had lasting impact across the universal transportation space.It's why I was honored to take the helm this year as the executive director of R&D at GM. Not only because GM has the automotive industry's longest-running R&D department (more than a century, dating back to 1920), but also because of the leading-edge technology that this team ...