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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 20, 2021
The latest SmartDrivingCars podcast raised fundamental questions regarding the rational for developing autonomous cars while debating the various paths to marke...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 15, 2021
One of the key differentiating characteristics of companies working on autonomous vehicles is the willingness to explain or disclose the manner in which this te...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2021
IAA Mobility held in Munich last week was the first post-pandemic international auto show to take place outside of China. The organizers positioned automot...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
One of the toughest tech tasks is adopting a new emerging technology that is fundamentally incompatible with the old. In the realm of connected cars, car m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
At the end of June, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a General Order requiring auto makers and creators of automated vehicle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
Last week, Mobileye released a 40-minute long unedited video of the company’s camera-only Supervision automated driving system in action on the chaotic ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
A report in The Information highlights multiple circumstances where Amazon trucks are getting stuck on dead end streets after being misled by navigation maps pr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
Comma.ai held its Comma_con event Saturday to highlight the progress the company had made in its pursuit of developing an open source aftermarket self-driving c...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 24, 2021
As the U.S. and global economies emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns the enduring impact on transportation is still unfolding. Ride hail drivers are returning.&...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 28, 2021
The adoption of 5G technology in the automotive industry is proceeding quietly but rapidly. Indications are that 18 car makers from around the world have c...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 03, 2021
The Consumer Technology Association announced yesterday the return of the Consumer Electronics Show – CES – to its home at the Las Vegas Conventio...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 12, 2021
These days tech journalists and analysts appear confident of one thing. Apple is working on an autonomous car.
There’s a “Garbo Talks” qu...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 31, 2021
Even as Honda Motors puts a so-called Level 3 semi-autonomous vehicle on the road in Japan – 100 of them to be exact – the outrage grows over semi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 22, 2021
(NOTE: The author is participating this week in the four-day Future Networked Car event put on by the International Telecommunications Union. Details here:...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 08, 2021
When Honda Motor Co. tied up with General Motors almost a year ago to collaborate on vehicle propulsion technology, connected car tech, and assisted driving, ob...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 24, 2021
Carmera is a tiny location technology company having a giant impact. That impact has been amplified by the onset and persistence of COVID-19.
Carmera&rsquo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 01, 2021
Qualcomm took center stage in the automotive industry this week to state its intention to dominate future dashboard infotainment systems. Long known for ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 20, 2021
General Motors CEO Mary Barra kicked off the annual Consumer Electronics Show this week touting GM’s virtual “Exhibit Zero” to describe the ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 20, 2021
Among the 143 last minute pardons issued by outgoing President Donald Trump is one for Anthony Levandowski. Levandowski's pardon raises important questions rega...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 08, 2021
A strange narrative took hold in the U.S. at the end of 2020 that vehicle sales were in decline, that cars weren’t selling. The reality is something ...
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