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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 22, 2022
As I prepare to join the International Telecommunications Union's Future Networked Car Symposium - today through Friday - I am reminded of Charles Dickens' "A T...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 10, 2022
In the grand scheme of personal tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and, soon, across Europe in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the woes of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2022
Anyone looking to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to forthrightly assert a path-setting policy vision to guide autonomous vehicle development in th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2022
For Tesla, 2021 was an amazing year. A blindspot looms in 2022.
Critics cheered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for opening multiple investig...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2022
Stellantis stole the show at CES 2022.
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares had a breakthrough at CES 2022 introducing his one-year-old company to the world and settin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2022
Once again keynoting the annual Consumer Electronics Show and once again doing so virtually, General Motors CEO Mary Barra talked over the heads of her audience...
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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 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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Kevin Mak
| Aug 02, 2021
With the increase government spending related to the pandemic crisis, many local governments have had to cut public transport (mass transit) provision to both b...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
“Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, compares the Uber chief to Sheryl Sandberg, ‘the ...
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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
| 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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