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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 11, 2019
Ford Motor Company’s debt may have been downgraded to junk this week, but the company’s savvy strategy for vehicle safety and connectivity has had a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 11, 2019
There was a time when General Motors’ OnStar offering was readily and clearly understood by consumers for the fact that it did one thing incredibly well:&...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 28, 2019
It was hard to escape the notion while attending RadiodaysAsia2019 this week that the world is experiencing what can only be called “peak radio.”&nb...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 18, 2019
As the automotive industry slowly comes to terms with the implications of 5G connections in cars there are few outside the industry that understand the signific...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 10, 2019
By now, we are all familiar with license plate readers being used by public authorities for everything from toll payment to camera-equipped patrol cars tracking...
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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 single ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 04, 2019
In the midst of a turbulent post-election session the European Commission voted today to reject proposed technical legislation seeking to set Wi-Fi-based commun...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 28, 2019
681 articles
Five years ago at the CeBIT Fair in Hannover, Germany, then Volkswagen Chairman of the Board Martin Winterkorn warned his listener...
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Edward Sanchez
| Jun 11, 2019
Two weeks into owning a Tesla Model 3
The day I have awaited literally for the better part of a decade for finally happened just over a week ago when I took del...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 08, 2019
The determined pursuit of "talking car" technology has introduced a phenomenon unique to the automotive industry. It is a malady that touches a wide range of ...
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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 deve...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 17, 2019
The European Union is on the cusp of making its greatest connected car blunder since the adoption of the eCall mandate which went into effect one year ago this ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 01, 2019
When NextEV U.S. CEO Padmasree Warrior spoke at AutomobilityLA more than two years ago she was one of only two female CEOs of car companies in the world. N...
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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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