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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 10, 2017
You can’t legislate safety. Safety is complicated. Automotive safety is positively mysterious if not impossible.
The U.S. Senate, and a compli...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 04, 2017
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is considering autonomous vehicle legislation today – the American Vision for Safer Tr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 04, 2017
There is a soccer chant crafted by Manchester City fans in the United Kingdom seeking to cast shade on fans of Liverpool FC by suggesting that the latter are i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 28, 2017
In spite of all of the terrible stories about vehicle-inflicted traffic and highway fatalities, the automobile industry continues to post impressive profit figu...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 25, 2017
Enterprise Holdings launched an advertising campaign at the beginning of 2017 positioning the company as a seller, renter and sharer of motor vehicles of all sh...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 21, 2017
China is considering joining the rising bandwagon of nations seeking to cap sales of fossil fuel vehicles. General Motors CEO Mary Barra spoke on the sub...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2017
The Automotive News informs us that General Motors' Cruise Automation division claims to have created the first true self-driving car. Okay, well, not exactly...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 25, 2017
There is something about an automobile that simultaneously inspires romance, anger and frustration. We fall in love with an MG or an Aston Martin or a Porsche ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2017
The reports are coming in now that Apple is working on self-driving car technology in support of developing shuttle buses - not unlike the dozen or so other co...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 18, 2017
We have gotten to the point with automotive safety where we are happy to hear that ONLY 18,000 people died on the nation’s highways in the first six mont...
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Edward Sanchez
| Jul 28, 2017
There have been dozens of technical standards that have come and gone over the years, superseded by better, faster, more reliable and more sophisticated technol...
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Edward Sanchez
| Jul 27, 2017
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that today’s cars are more technically complex than ever, and the future trajectory is decisively in t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 24, 2017
The big news over the weekend was accusations flying in Europe over German car company anti-competitive collusion. While it’s true that European com...
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Edward Sanchez
| Jul 20, 2017
Not all technologies portrayed in sci-fi movies play out exactly as expected. We still don’t have flying cars that fold up into briefcases, as portrayed ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 03, 2017
Jim Morrison’s stentorian incantation at the start of “Roadhouse Blues” helps that tune stand as one of the great rock anthems of the ‘...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 29, 2017
Stupid has a home and that home is in Macomb County, Michigan. It is here, we learn from The Detroit News, that General Motors Co. has decided to test the use ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 29, 2017
When speaking before the U.S. Senate or Congress one has to choose one’s words carefully. The temptation, when one is speaking before legislators an...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 30, 2017
I get in my car every day and I ask myself: Really? Is this the best we can do? Is this as good as it gets? There’s got to be a better way...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 25, 2017
Getting started in the automotive industry is a bitch. Any time I come across yet another automotive startup looking for a toehold in the automotive marke...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 25, 2017
As the automotive industry faces and embraces its future in car sharing and a broad range of other ad hoc car usage scenarios and, ultimately, autonomous drivin...
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