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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 30, 2020
“Ads definitely work, but we can’t tell you how or why or give you any evidence,” – Tim Hwang, research fellow, Georgetown Center f...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 24, 2020
Word arrived last week that General Motors was returning to the car insurance business, after a decade-long sojourn post-bankruptcy, in the form of a tie up wit...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2020
General Motors President Mark Reuss told Reuters last week that he is worried about the COVID-19 pandemic currently running rampant in the U.S. and globally.&nb...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 02, 2020
The news arrived a couple weeks ago of a pilot project whereby six U.S. state-level departments of transportation (DOTs) would leverage anonymized vehicle data ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 27, 2020
Automotive innovations have the greatest impact when they create what can only be described as magical experiences. The most magical experience of all is the ca...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 28, 2020
There are two killer apps in the connected car: Traffic and First Notice of Loss. Accurate traffic predictions are essential to routing. First no...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 28, 2020
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
-- Robert Burns, "To a louse"
I live in a COVID-19 ghetto. Due to the recent blunder I ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 24, 2020
Vehicle-to-everything communications will save lives and improve vehicular transportation, but not before multiple barriers to adoption are overcome. This...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 22, 2020
Four years ago, this month, McKinsey published a report - "Monetizing Car Data" - which continues to simultaneously haunt and mock the automotive industry. The ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 09, 2020
At an industry event last year in Japan a senior General Motors executive in charge of electrification took the stage and commenced his talk by putting a pictur...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 07, 2020
We tend to think of driving as an individualistic and escapist pursuit. Whether it’s a trip to the grocery for a gallon of milk or a roadtrip to vi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 07, 2020
Rare is the auto maker today that views connectivity as an option when designing a car. Connectivity is essential even if it is not yet universally availab...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| Sep 01, 2020
Polestar, a sports car joint venture between Volvo Car Group and its parent company Geely, hosted a test drive event at Farnborough airport in the UK and Strate...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 07, 2020
Casual observers of the automobile industry are quick to compare connected cars to "smartphones on wheels." It's a simple way of looking at things that makes so...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 01, 2020
It's happened again. Yesterday, on a highway in Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 plowed into the trailer of an overturned truck. Accounts of the event suggest the vehicl...
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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 06, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a gut-wrenching experience for millions of people around the world - and heart-wrenching as well - and it's not over. Yet even ...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 05, 2020
Moovit has long been the darling of Israel's transportation-obsessed startup community. The company has frequently, and appropriately, been compared to Waze for...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 21, 2020
The Automotive News reported Friday that updated guidance from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Iinfrastructure Security Agency had ident...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 16, 2020
Maps have become a critical focal point for educating the public regarding the spread of COVID-19 across the world. The next stage in this global crisis will b...
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