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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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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
General Motors has two media magnets in CEO Mary Barra and Cruise Automation founder Kyle Vogt. Barra is praised for boosting GM profitability while strea...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
Can it be just five years ago that General Motors CEO Mary Barra, then head of global product development, purchasing and supply chain for the company, was tell...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
There’s a new kid on the rideshare block, Bounce, which is rewriting the rules of driver compensation. In fact, the company’s compensation inno...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
The latest reliability report from Consumer Reports which dumped on domestics and rained glory upon Asian imports highlighted a conundrum facing car makers.&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 25, 2018
The latest reliability report from Consumer Reports which dumped on domestics and rained glory upon Asian imports highlighted a conundrum facing car makers.&nb...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 24, 2018
When cities put on a press event to announce they are welcoming a company to town to test autonomous vehicles within the city limits the news is greeted with p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 23, 2018
The cybersecurity of automobiles has become an increasingly critical issue in the context of autonomous vehicle development. While creators of autonomous ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 22, 2018
Google says it wants to charge fees to handset makers in Europe for Android apps such as Googlemaps and Gmail, according to the New York Times. The move is cle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 17, 2018
The automotive navigation industry had another Google moment, Tuesday, as TomTom faced the investor community for its third quarter earnings call. As is ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 17, 2018
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk pulled a rabbit out of his hat last month making thousands of cars vanish and converting reports of production and delivery hell in...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2018
Here we go again. A hurricane is closing in on the U.S. East Coast and General Motors' OnStar connected car team - now part of something called Global Connecte...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2018
Florida is poised to surpass California and Arizona as the leader in autonomous driving development thanks to an aggressive legislative agenda that began in 20...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2018
The Reverend Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, held forth to his flock on yesterday’s earnings call. Musk described at length his efforts to lead the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 01, 2018
From sexual harassment, to surveilling regulators, to Uber drivers and taxi drivers committing suicide (because they can't make a living) the pervasive creepin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 30, 2018
A colleague of mine questions why I drive, or rather why I own, a BMW. I own a BMW because the company and the brand stand at the crossroads of connected and d...
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