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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2020
2019 will be remembered as the year the automotive industry decided to right-size its autonomous vehicle ambitions. Multiple auto makers tempered their v...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 24, 2020
Car companies, start-ups, and investors across the globe have embraced and spread the virus of autonomous vehicle technology. The infection got its start ...
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Kevin Mak
| Mar 23, 2020
Originally published on March 5th, 2020
The coronavirus or COVID-19 is causing a number of issues that will adversely affect the automotive sector:
Loss o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 23, 2020
It was 31 years ago that Chris Webber, vice president of the Global Automotive Practice (GAP) at Strategy Analytics, began his automotive research and consultin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2020
The arrival of COVID-19 is the cure for all that has ailed the world for the past few years. Hundreds of thousands have been infected. Thousands hav...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 05, 2020
As technology consumers we make tradeoffs.
We let Google peer into our online activity and email communications and we even accept annoying advertisements tied ...
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Kevin Nolan
| Mar 03, 2020
The surge in adoption of streaming music services, especially among younger consumer segments, has led many to predict the demise of traditional broadcast radio...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 18, 2020
A funny thing happened on the way to Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) event scheduled for this week. The event organizer - the GSMA &nd...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 07, 2020
The announcement of Ericsson's decision to bypass the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this year due to the onset of the novel coronavirus set off alarm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 06, 2020
Now that Apple’s new navigation maps are out it appears that the years-old rumors of an inevitable acquisition of TomTom by Apple can finally be laid to r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 05, 2020
‘Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one
- “Twisted” – Ross an...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 04, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Secretary Elaine Chao sought to make a splash at CES2020 in Las Vegas by announcing her Automated Vehicles 4.0 pla...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 30, 2020
On Monday, General Motors announced its production plans for its Hamtramck assembly plant to include the company’s first all-electric pickup, to be foll...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 30, 2020
In a rare and perhaps unfortunate moment of candor, Cruise Automation CEO Dan Ammann wrote, in his blog post describing the emergence of Cruise (a subsidia...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2020
The New Yorks Times' "The Privacy Project" highlights all that is terrifying about our surveillance economy. We blithely throw away our privacy for the privileg...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2020
For years, my friends in the OBDII business have been telling me that business is very good. I want to believe them and I want to support them, but I am looki...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 26, 2020
On this Saturday, with the defense of the President of the United States getting underway in the U.S. Senate, it is worth considering the case for General Motor...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 22, 2020
We don't know when it might launch. We don't know how much it might cost. We don't know precisely where it will operate - though downtown San Francisco is a goo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 21, 2020
Believe it or not, Tesla Motors is teaching us to be better drivers. One of the most remarkable lessons we are learning is that motor vehicles on public roadway...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 20, 2020
Car companies are interesting creatures in a corporate world increasingly dominated by Internet-centric behemoths from Silicon Valley, Seattle, and China. ...
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