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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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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 18, 2020
Car makers and ride hailing operators are licking their chops in anticipation as economies emerge from lockdowns and human beings return to public spaces. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 09, 2020
As I listened last Friday to Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein interview Scott Corwin, managing partner and "Future of Mobility" practice leader at Deloitte...
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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 02, 2020
It seems so obvious to me. Ride hailing companies and taxi cabs or any for-hire automobile-based transportation, should be retrofitted (if not already equi...
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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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Roger Lanctot
| May 28, 2020
Markus Villig, the CEO of ride-hailing operator Bolt, had good news for his fellow panelists on an April mobility-focused Webcast put on by The Information. The...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 25, 2020
If you’re wondering what the long-term impact of Uber Technologies has been on the transportation industry you need look no further than this weekend&rsqu...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 22, 2020
The once-vaunted mobility sector is in the toilet. Ride hailing demand has plunged as much as 80% around the world - with the possible exception of markets in r...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 13, 2020
Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune, so no one will suspect I'm afraid
-- "Anna" - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I...
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