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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 04, 2020
The Information tells us today that General Motors' Cruise Automation self-driving car unit has acquired automotive radar maker Astyx. The move can be seen as a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 01, 2020
It's happened again. Yesterday, on a highway in Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 plowed into the trailer of an overturned truck. Accounts of the event suggest the vehicl...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 29, 2020
Some people, U.S. President Donald J. Trump among them, will have you believe that one day, soon, we will wake up and everything will be as it was before the ar...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| May 14, 2020
The year is 2035; humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Every robot and machine created has a positronic brain. This...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 12, 2020
Hertz has an earnings call this morning. Things don't look good and a bankruptcy filing is not out of the question. The current results are not awful, reflectin...
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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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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 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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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 12, 2020
Veoneer’s booth at CES 2020 may have been located in a parking lot at the far end of South Hall but attendees that made the journey to the mini-Smart City...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 29, 2019
My Lyft driver in San Jose thought his Hyundai had “autopilot,” alluding I suspected, to Tesla Motors’ feature of the same name which has plac...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 27, 2019
These days it seems as if attending mobility events is more popular than mobility itself. Every week brings news of a mobility service provider retrenching...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 24, 2019
First of all, let me say that no one should break the law. No one should violate speed limits. No one should drive a vehicle in such a way that might ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 20, 2019
“I’ve always wanted to say this: The experts are terrible.” – candidate Donald J. Trump speaking at a Wisconsin rally in 2016 as quote...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 18, 2019
AAA is out with a new study, conducted on its behalf by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, that purports to show, among other things, that advanced aut...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| Oct 18, 2019
On Tuesday 24th of September 2019, TomTom held its annual Capital Markets Day at the Hotel Arena in Amsterdam. There were many TomTom engineers showcasing class...
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