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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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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2021
A new year finds the transportation industry facing new priorities and new metrics to measure success. “Mobility” changed the focus of transpor...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2020
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced that he will step down from his post on January 20th, the day President-elect Joseph Biden will be sworn in. Pai...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 21, 2020
The U.S. DOT and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration need a reset and a new business model. The arrival of the Biden Administration in Janua...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 21, 2020
Uber Technologies has sold its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) subsidiary to Aurora Innovation putting its fatally flawed autonomous driving endeavors in the ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 07, 2020
David Zipper of Harvard’s Kennedy School writes in Slate that the incoming Biden Administration should “bring the hammer down” on Tesla Moto...
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Asif Anwar
| Nov 20, 2020
Marvell recently introduced custom silicon solutions targeting the growing market for data processing and AI accelerated solutions for the data center and autom...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 23, 2020
Within months of its post-CES announcement of the Cruise Automation Origin robotaxi, General Motors found itself face to face with an operational design domain ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 23, 2020
Tesla Motors kicked off the release of its latest earnings with news of record results and the release of the company’s Full Self Driving beta. Lead...
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Ian Riches
| Oct 15, 2020
The 2020 Automotive Software Survey was carried out jointly by Strategy Analytics and Aurora Labs. This blogpost examines the responses to two of the twenty que...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 21, 2020
The headline screams off of the page and challenges all that we know about the fatal crash in Tempe, Ariz., that took the life of Elaine Herzberg two and a half...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| Sep 01, 2020
Polestar, a sports car joint venture between Volvo Car Group and its parent company Geely, hosted a test drive event at Farnborough airport in the UK and Strate...
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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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