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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2020
The outlook for DoorDash’s highly anticipated public offering announced last week is inextricably bound up in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 12, 2020
Of all of the voluminous reporting on the mobility sector generally and ride hailing in particular most shocking is the lack of coverage of driver and passenger...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 09, 2020
The only thing worse than California voters passing Proposition 22 – a measure to enable all app-based drivers to be considered independent contractors ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 27, 2020
While millions of workers around the world have lost their jobs and thousands of companies have disappeared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 27, 2020
Attendees at CES 2020 might have been stunned to see the S-A1 Urban Air Vehicle dominating the Hyundai booth in the North Hall - perhaps even raising questions ...
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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 13, 2020
Three years ago, Intel and Strategy Analytics collaborated on a report that imagined a world of the future that would be defined by automated vehicles with good...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 07, 2020
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and Instacart are financing a $180M advertising blitz in California to support a ballot measure – Proposition 22 – ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 01, 2020
Uber Technologies won’t be reporting its latest earnings for another month, but when it does so in November the news is not expected to be good. In a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 18, 2020
The automotive industry has felt the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic with factory and dealership shutdowns, personal protective equipment and ventilator man...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 11, 2020
Four and a half years ago General Motors sank $500M into ride hailing service provider Lyft. At the time, the investment looked like a hedge against the su...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 18, 2020
My wife and I disagree. My wife thinks Uber provides a valuable and often inexpensive alternative to taxis – plain and simple. I see something m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 12, 2020
Uber has taken a highly profitable business and turned it into a very unprofitable and dangerous one with the help of the pandemic. With guile, innovation,...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 21, 2020
Reuters reports that Uber has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into c...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 21, 2020
A funny thing happens when you let car makers make cars and car dealers sell cars - people start buying cars. With the U.S. economy at least partially re-openin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 20, 2020
In his account of former Uber founder, Travis Kalanick's, rise and demise, "Super Pumped," New York Times correspondent Mike Isaac recounts the impact of the ar...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 16, 2020
The only thing worse than no regulation at all is a regulatory regime run amok. At no time is this clearer than in the midst of a pandemic when lives and l...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 01, 2020
We hear it every day from so-called transportation experts. The general public is going to be too terrified to ride public transportation after COVID-19. Guess ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 01, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the business of reporting news into a funhouse mirror where reality is distorted, up is down, and hopes for improving health an...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 19, 2020
For years, the lords of Lyft and Uber have declaimed their intention to vanquish car ownership and displace public transportation. It really was as simpl...
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