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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 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
| May 03, 2021
I haven’t traveled a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic, but I have flown a few times around the U.S. As a former frequent flyer I pride myself on anti...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2021
There’s a basic measure of what constitutes a good job. Would you recommend that job to a friend or family member?
Five years ago, in the earlier m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2021
In his parting screed describing his seven years under the wing of Google, post its $966M acquisition of Waze, former CEO Noam Bardin takes the company and his ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 12, 2021
Ever since the rise of Tesla Motors’ CEO, Elon Musk, and his direct business model and direct way of communicating, competing car makers have struggled to...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 24, 2021
For taxi and ride hailing operators to thrive in our post-pandemic world will require the widespread adoption of in-vehicle partitions. The problem lies i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 12, 2021
“I do think that I'm worried about one thing going into the second half of the year is, are we going to have enough drivers to meet the demand that we're ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 09, 2021
Lyft will report its latest quarterly results after the close of markets today. Uber will report Wednesday. Uber is expected to report a 12% decline i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2021
Florida is cracking down on vaccine tourism. Connecticut is struggling with online scheduling of senior citizen vaccinations. Dollar General, Aldi, an...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated public transportation of every variety from buses and taxis to airplanes and trains. The combination of remote work and evo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 20, 2021
A study published in ScienceAdvances has shown computer simulations of the movement of virus-laden airborne droplets in cars. The objective of the study appears...
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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 12, 2021
Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart and Doordash were successful in their nearly $200M effort to pass California’s Proposition 22 in November – to allo...
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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 22, 2020
It’s been a couple years since the auto industry was abuzz with rumors of Apple’s plans to make a car – a 2015-2018 buzz. Now that rumor ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 14, 2020
Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has put the word out to individual states in the U.S. seeking prioritization for Uber drivers, who he characterizes appropriately a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 14, 2020
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic back in the spring of 2020, the outlook for mobility services suddenly turned bleak. Micromobility operators shut down com...
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