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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 02, 2020
The negative impacts of the coronavirus, COVID-19, on the automotive industry continue to radiate out from the closure of factories and dealerships (for vehicle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 31, 2020
It's a shame that the U.S. president and his administration have chosen to criticize and attack China for its poor management of the novel coronavirus crisis. I...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 30, 2020
The New York Times, and other media outlets, tell us this morning that "as many as 200,000 Instacart shoppers could walk off the job" today in a strike protes...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 26, 2020
A crisis on the pandemic scale of COVID-19 needs a solution of an equally epic scope. The thousands of workers that still actually must show up for work in an e...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 25, 2020
By now it is pretty clear that everywhere outside of China and South Korea human beings are doing a lousy job of "social distancing," locking down, and shelteri...
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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
| Mar 20, 2020
As the world wrestles with the consequences of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, running wild laying waste to health care systems, communities, and economies, it i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2020
The hideous reality of the coronavirus has exposed the hideous realities of the mobility industry with sobering implications for all. At its core, mobility...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 13, 2020
Financial analysts were thrilled with Uber's latest earnings report in spite of ongoing loss-making activity and legal woes. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's enthus...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 05, 2020
“It is kind of crazy that the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia when the Hillary campaign wasn’t even in contact with Michigan. It’s a...
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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 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 23, 2020
As I planned my travel to attend MobilityTalks in Washingdon, DC, yesterday I considered my options:
Drive to the Metro and park my car there - I am not su...
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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 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 15, 2020
There is a temptation to blame U.S. President Donald J. Trump for everything that is right or for everything that is wrong in the world today. Either that ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 08, 2020
Three transportation-related events occurred in the first week of January 2020, coincident with the opening of the CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center...
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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 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 19, 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, ShareNow (formerly know in the U.S. and elsewhere as Car2Go) announced its plans to exit the North American (and other) markets. The l...
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