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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 14, 2021
Of all the challenges facing the automotive industry – chip shortages, electrification, automation – none is more troubling than preserving cybersec...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2021
IAA Mobility held in Munich last week was the first post-pandemic international auto show to take place outside of China. The organizers positioned automot...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 03, 2021
A few weeks ago Mobile World Congress included among its keynotes a live interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk moderated by Mobile World Live Publisher Justin Spri...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
One of the toughest tech tasks is adopting a new emerging technology that is fundamentally incompatible with the old. In the realm of connected cars, car m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
Twenty-five years after General Motors launched its OnStar automatic crash notification service, Next Generation 9-1-1 has finally arrived thanks to a company c...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
A report in The Information highlights multiple circumstances where Amazon trucks are getting stuck on dead end streets after being misled by navigation maps pr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2021
Comma.ai held its Comma_con event Saturday to highlight the progress the company had made in its pursuit of developing an open source aftermarket self-driving c...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 28, 2021
The adoption of 5G technology in the automotive industry is proceeding quietly but rapidly. Indications are that 18 car makers from around the world have c...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 03, 2021
The Consumer Technology Association announced yesterday the return of the Consumer Electronics Show – CES – to its home at the Las Vegas Conventio...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 03, 2021
As an American, I find myself gazing across the Atlantic with a mixture of awe, envy, and confusion at an automotive marketplace operating under a highly activi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 12, 2021
The global market for auto insurance is expected by some to surpass $1T in five years. The U.S. market alone already represents a $300B opportunity.
The ma...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 30, 2021
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
I hope Ben Franklin w...
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Edward Sanchez
| Mar 29, 2021
Connected cars have gone from the realm of conference PowerPoints a decade ago to reality, with an estimated 300+ million connected cars currently on the road ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 22, 2021
(NOTE: The author is participating this week in the four-day Future Networked Car event put on by the International Telecommunications Union. Details here:...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2021
In his parting screed describing his seven years under the wing of Google, post its $966M acquisition of Waze, former CEO Noam Bardin takes the company and his ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2021
It’s amusing to listen to Volkswagen and General Motors posturing over their multi-billion-dollar plans to launch massive EV product line-ups in order to ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 10, 2021
Prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic car makers were inching toward putting their 5G connectivity plans into action. There was a growing recognit...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 24, 2021
Carmera is a tiny location technology company having a giant impact. That impact has been amplified by the onset and persistence of COVID-19.
Carmera&rsquo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 24, 2021
It’s true. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, knows when you crash your Tesla. He just isn’t obliged, in the U.S., to do anything about it.&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 12, 2021
Two pileups in one day - one in Forth Worth, Texas, and one in Cobb County, Georgia. Enough is enough.
We're all familiar with multi-car pileup stories regardle...
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