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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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Ben Lundin
| Oct 03, 2019
On October 2nd in front of an audience of journalists, reporters and industry analysts, Ford Mobility and the city of Ann Arbor showcased some of their ong...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 20, 2019
In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, four researchers using ride data provided by Uber determined that for every dollar spent by Ub...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 31, 2019
In his book “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” Peter Norton describes the onset of motor vehicles in the first tw...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 16, 2019
Car2Go had 75 of its vehicles stolen in a single day in Chicago earlier this year, later recovering most of the vehicles – though many had been stripped...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 15, 2019
Reports from Reuters last week suggested that the European Union member states "should brace for U.S. tariffs on several fronts in the coming months," based on ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 12, 2019
When a commercial truck struck a Navya autonomous shuttle in Las Vegas on November 8, 2017, it set off a torrent of headlines around the world. Now, the Nationa...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 08, 2019
The GM Authority newsletter reports that General Motors has “drastically” reduced the complimentary trial period of all OnStar services to a singl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 04, 2019
Uri Levine, one of the founders of Waze and a serial entrepreneur who now resides on map maker HERE's board of directors, is something of a transportation visio...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 02, 2019
Uber knows very little about the cars and drivers on its network. The company has even fought legal battles to avoid doing background checks on those dri...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 24, 2019
Tesla Motors held an investor event at its Palo Alto headquarters yesterday. CEO Elon Musk and a series of Tesla executives announced a new in-house develo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 29, 2019
Lyft's initial public offering today is expected to be the biggest tech offering in two years. A public offering is very much like an elevator and everyone gett...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 25, 2019
The good news is that Lyft’s initial public offering is over-subscribed, according to published reports. That also happens to be the bad news.
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 08, 2019
Lyft’s S1 filing for its IPO is a sobering read, as such documents often are, requiring, as they do, the full disclosure of current financial circumstance...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 21, 2019
Pundits and pontificators are publishing viewpoints on a utopian future of smart cities and optimized transportation options populated with new mobility solutio...
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