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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 05, 2016
It's December and time for the annual Apple-should-buy-TomTom rant. Of course, we know Apple prefers younger, smaller companies with brighter and clearer long-...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 30, 2016
The frustration in the room was palpable yesterday at the annual Vehicle Connectivity Workshop gathering of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 23, 2016
My colleague and automotive safety system guru at Strategy Analytics, Ian Riches, is fond of citing Amara's Law. Named for Roy Amara (1925-2007), research, sci...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 17, 2016
Padmasree Warrior, CEO and chief development officer of NextEV USA, kicked off day two of Automobility at the Los Angeles Auto Show with a powerful perspective...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 15, 2016
The Automobility event, which starts today ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show, will be remembered for introducing the bot in a box. While Ford Motor Compa...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 13, 2016
Every conference has a presentation that seizes the moment in a series of slides that slices to the heart of whatever industry transformation is afoot. Su...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 09, 2016
It’s hard to be a thought leader around the future of transportation when the entire market seems to be moving in one of three directions simultaneously:...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 07, 2016
As an occasional rider of the rails in the U.K., I am charmed by the unusual station names. Unfortunately my exposure is limited for the most part to the ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 23, 2016
No. A green wave isn't something you do at a New York Jets or a Michigan State Spartans game. A green wave is that thing your dad or obsessive friend or maybe Y...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2016
For some marketers the operative mantra is go big or go home. It looks like Apple and Google are both taking a harder look at the automotive industry and h...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2016
The funny thing about pitching new cars to the general public these days is that no one really wants to think about ever getting into a crash. There was a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2016
President Barack Obama has a legacy deficit.
True, this ground-breaking, Nobel Prize-winning leader forged a massive economic recovery, brokered a nuclear...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2016
I strongly recommend giving a listen to John McElroy’s panel discussion podcast featuring Julia Steyn (pictured on the right, above), vice president of ur...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 08, 2016
Alphabet is showing signs of taking over just about every infotainment function in cars except one: traffic information.
When Alphabet, aka Google, arriv...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 03, 2016
Steven Szakaly, chief economist of the National Automobile Dealer Association in the U.S., spoke at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Semi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 27, 2016
In Tom Taylor's latest email blast he quotes SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer saying that his 30M+ listeners are not making an either/or choice. They are listening...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 26, 2016
Last week began with news of Germany pondering the requirement of a crash-reporting black box for autonomous vehicles and China considering a ban on testing of...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 17, 2016
In the U.K., where vehicle theft has been in a steep decline for the past 20 years, the most widespread advice given by police to car owners is: keep your car ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 15, 2016
As predicted, by me, the anti-Tesla and anti-autonomous vehicle forces are gathering in the wake the recent fatal Tesla Model S crash in Florida. The ris...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 12, 2016
We’ve seen so many of the videos now (here in the U.S. and around the world) that the evening news has morphed into a prolonged episode of “Cops&rd...
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