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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2018
Here we go again. A hurricane is closing in on the U.S. East Coast and General Motors' OnStar connected car team - now part of something called Global Connecte...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2018
Florida is poised to surpass California and Arizona as the leader in autonomous driving development thanks to an aggressive legislative agenda that began in 20...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2018
The Reverend Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, held forth to his flock on yesterday’s earnings call. Musk described at length his efforts to lead the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 01, 2018
From sexual harassment, to surveilling regulators, to Uber drivers and taxi drivers committing suicide (because they can't make a living) the pervasive creepin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 30, 2018
A colleague of mine questions why I drive, or rather why I own, a BMW. I own a BMW because the company and the brand stand at the crossroads of connected and d...
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Derek Viita
| Jun 25, 2018
Late last week, local law enforcement released its report on the fatal crash involving a vehicle from Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG). The result...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 17, 2018
Toyota Motor North America CEO James Lentz got a letter from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week recognizing Toyota’s announced pl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 09, 2018
Traffic is like the weather. Everyone complains about it, but no one can seem to actually do anything about it. Just as we have a widely acknowledged problem w...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 09, 2018
If there was a central takeaway to Nvidia's GTC event last week in San Jose it was this: autonomous vehicles are already operating or at least testing in virtu...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 03, 2018
Just as California has called the regulatory tune as far as vehicle emissions are concerned, with the impact of the California Air Resources Board's decisions ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2018
Nvidia has an affinity for taking on computational challenges. Whether it be diagnostic tools derived from medical imaging, mapping the earth’s core...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 26, 2018
In the midst of reports of escalating human carnage unfolding on U.S. (and global) highways, Ford Motor Company has opened up a new front in the battle to enha...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 22, 2018
In "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" circa 1971, Gene Wilder plays a vaguely misanthropic Willy Wonka who leads the young winners of his golden wrapper c...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 21, 2018
The call to terminate the testing of autonomous driving vehicles on public roads have risen predictably in the wake of the fatal crash between an Uber automated...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2018
The news of a pedestrian fatality in Tempe, Ariz., resulting from the operation of an Uber autonomous vehicle has set off alarm bells throughout the AV develop...
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Derek Viita
| Mar 14, 2018
Earlier this decade, representatives from Google’s self-driving research project predicted the launch of a fully autonomous ride-hailing service within a ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 07, 2018
In the novel “Catch-22” from which the eponymous 1970 movie was made we learn of a fictional bureaucratic means by which the U.S. Air Force was able...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 06, 2018
Today more than ever where you live may well determine what kind of car you drive. Federal governments and, lately, cities are stepping forward to determin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 02, 2018
European regulators are poised to once again shift European car makers to the back of the queue when it comes to realizing the value of connected cars. While t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 19, 2018
Sometimes it seems like we have already given up on human driving. We hear the news about annual highway fatalities on the rise (in the U.S. and globally) ...
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