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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 08, 2019
Car makers, tech companies and wireless carriers are on a path to introduce inter-vehicle communications capable of providing additional data to help prevent ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 08, 2019
The electrified Polestar 2 was the belle of the ball at the Geneva International Motor Show this past week. This Tesla Motors Model 3 killer won’t ar...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 07, 2019
It’s painful and expensive testing fully-automated vehicles with safety drivers and engineers in the front seat. Just ask General Motors.
In yesterda...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 06, 2019
TomTom's earnings call at 9 a.m. this morning should be an attention grabber coming, as it does, on the heels of selling off its telematics division for €9...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2019
There was a CES 2019 interview in The Verge (theverge.com) last week of Patrick Brady, described as Head of Android Auto for Google, in which more than 6,000 wo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2019
Automotive cybersecurity is an intractable nightmare with significant though inchoate implications for consumers and existential exposure for auto makers. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 22, 2019
Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM was kind enough to take on the task of an hour-long keynote at CES 2019 in Las Vegas last week. She used ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 22, 2019
A funny question was asked at an automated vehicle tech conference last week. But, first, some context.
The biggest news in Israel last week was Mobileye&r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 14, 2019
Google, Apple and Tesla Motors introduced the automotive industry to FOMO – the fear of missing out – more than six years with their public and pr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 07, 2019
The often pedantic debate over how cars will directly communicate with other cars and infrastructure will culminate suitably at CES 2019 with multiple C-V2X ann...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2019
The annual trek to Las Vegas arrives this year with visions of sinusitis, chapped lips, flat feet and new concepts for automotive cockpit systems. It is no...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2019
After 27 years, Tom Taylor, author and publisher of the “Tom Taylor NOW” newsletter, for radio industry acolytes and advocates has turned off his mi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 02, 2019
Attendees of CES 2019 arriving at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport next week will have four options for getting to their hotels: a shuttle offerin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2019
Three years ago Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller hacked an FCA Jeep to demonstrate the ability to remotely control a vehicle. The stunt was intended to mak...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2019
CES 2018 saw the proliferation of digital assistant applications in cars (and homes, of course) with Harman International, Panasonic and Visteon showing multipl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 28, 2018
After two years of wrestling with and at least partially resolving fraud charges over its “defeat device” to manipulate emissions testing results,...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 27, 2018
On April 29, 2015, FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne made the case for auto makers to get big or go home as part of his now-famous “Confessions of a Capital Junki...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 28, 2018
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is known for a number of quotes one of which is: “My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 27, 2018
Auto makers have long relied on security by obscurity to get away with not defining or adhering to proper cyber security hygiene. This rationalizati...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 26, 2018
Sweden has embraced the movement toward a cashless society with banks no longer taking cash deposits and retailers, like Ikea, experimenting with cashlessness.&...
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