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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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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 10, 2016
The National Transportation Safety Board’s entry into the investigation of the first fatal crash of a Tesla Model S is a monumental turning point in the a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 05, 2016
Do car makers know what they are getting themselves into with car sharing? Car companies are lacing up their skates and venturing out on the thin ice of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 04, 2016
Bankrate.com came out with a report last week raising questions regarding new car pricing with a city-by-city breakdown of affordability. Bankrate's key ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 03, 2016
It is fitting and unfortunate that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chose the Friday before the Fourth of July weekend to release figures show...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 01, 2016
Politicians will tell you that Fridays are reserved for announcements (defeats, resignations, indictments) intended to be ignored or lost in the end of week ne...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 06, 2016
The Vision Zero movement, embraced by Sweden and select U.S. and foreign cities around the world, continues to elude the grasp of U.S. Department of Transporta...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 20, 2016
Cnet reports that, starting this week, AT&T is offering "Unlimited Plan" customers the option to add connected cars or a ZTE Mobley Wi-Fi plug-in device to...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 18, 2016
When fawning over the darlings of the technology industry we tend to forget that these organizations are made up of human beings working with fallible technolo...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 09, 2016
After its latest somewhat disappointing earnings report and TomTom's less than disappointing earnings report, the time would seem nigh for Apple to make a long...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 29, 2016
There was a time when auto makers ruled the world of manufacturing and engineering. That time coincided with the market share struggles between Japanese ...
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