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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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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 09, 2021
Gamestop isn’t the only source of wild stock market gyrations. In fact, one might argue that the crazy valuations gravy train got its start at a humb...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 01, 2021
Qualcomm took center stage in the automotive industry last week to state its intention to dominate future dashboard infotainment systems. Long known for ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 08, 2021
A strange narrative took hold in the U.S. at the end of 2020 that vehicle sales were in decline, that cars weren’t selling. The reality is something ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2021
A new year finds the transportation industry facing new priorities and new metrics to measure success. “Mobility” changed the focus of transpor...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2020
"And the lights all went out in Massachusetts" - The Bee Gees "Massachusetts"
It may be no surprise that in the year of presidentially alleged voting fraud and ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2020
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced that he will step down from his post on January 20th, the day President-elect Joseph Biden will be sworn in. Pai...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 24, 2020
Christmas 2020 is here and the forecasters of travel behavior and highway fatalities have reached into their bag and pulled out some tidings of woe – with...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 23, 2020
The Automotive News had a standout year in 2020 - thriving at a time when many publishers suffered. With factories and dealerships shuttered in the spring ...
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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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