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Derek Viita
| Nov 05, 2018
Last week, GM announced it was suspending operations of its monthly premium subscription service BOOK by Cadillac. GM and media sources cited the exorbita...
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Derek Viita
| Jun 25, 2018
Late last week, local law enforcement released its report on the fatal crash involving a vehicle from Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG). The result...
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Derek Viita
| Mar 14, 2018
Earlier this decade, representatives from Google’s self-driving research project predicted the launch of a fully autonomous ride-hailing service within a ...
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Derek Viita
| Dec 07, 2017
This week GM announced the release of Marketplace, a new platform allowing consumers to conduct a variety of commerce-related interactions from their car.&...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 05, 2017
In what has become an almost-annual tradition, the American Automobile Association (AAA) is making the media rounds with distracted driving research the organiz...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 04, 2017
In a Medium post yesterday, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise Automation, acquired last year by GM) discussed his company's rationale for focusing their autonomous drive...
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Paul Brown
| Mar 07, 2017
Strategy Analytics met with Qeexo at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. Qeexo develop user interaction technology for smart devices such as large fo...
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Chris Schreiner
| Mar 02, 2017
Prior to today, existing vehicle hotspot plans for consumers did not look too appetizing with high fees for a relatively low amount of data. In a recently publi...
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Derek Viita
| Jan 30, 2017
New simulator-based research published in the journal Human Factors last week studied reaction time for hand-offs and take-overs in a semi-autonomous highway dr...
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Derek Viita
| Nov 23, 2016
This week, NHTSA in the US released its latest set of driver distraction guidelines, focusing on use of portable and aftermarket devices. These guidelines...
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Derek Viita
| Apr 13, 2016
This week, Elon Musk revealed a secret mode in Tesla's Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system. When Autopilot is activated 4 times in succession, a port...
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Derek Viita
| Jan 25, 2016
Last week, a Nissan Leaf outfitted as a test vehicle for an autonomous driving startup called Cruise Automation crashed into a parked car in San Francisco. ...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 22, 2015
This week, AAA released their latest round of distraction research which focused on hands-free in-vehicle infotainment systems. In one study, 10 different...
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Derek Viita
| Sep 11, 2015
At this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the newest line of iPhones was unveiled. One of the key features touted on the new iPhone 6 and 6S i...
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Derek Viita
| Jul 27, 2015
As initially hinted at CES 2015, BMW will roll out gesture controls as a standard feature in its 7-series later this year. This will allow drivers to cont...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 31, 2014
Two senior GM executives appear to be working and speaking at crosspurposes. This isn’t necessarily unusual, but given the fact that the focus of th...
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Kevin Mak
| Dec 17, 2013
Ian Riches, Director of the Automotive Electronics Service at Strategy Analytics, discusses the outlook for auto makers worldwide and Volkswagen’s strateg...
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Chris Schreiner
| Apr 24, 2013
Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released revised driver distraction guidelines. This long overdue revision came after t...
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Paul Brown
| Sep 21, 2012
Today saw the launch of the Apple iPhone 5, the first device to feature Apple's new mapping application pre-installed. However, iOS 6 was released for other App...
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Chris Schreiner
| Sep 18, 2012
OEMs are striving more than ever to differentiate their infotainment offerings with HMI. Proximity sensors, gestures, and natural language speech recogni...
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