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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 03, 2016
Speaking at NADA in Las Vegas this weekend, incoming National Automobile Dealer Association Chairman Jeff Carlson cautioned against legislation to require deal...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2016
Thanks go to Tom Taylor this week for highlighting the impact of politics on advertising on radio and television and the role of car dealers. Taylor descr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2016
Law enforcement officers, emergency responders and commercial fleet operators cannot afford to operate vehicles without the assurance of security. A polic...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 21, 2016
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, put out a written public service announcement (PSA) l...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2016
The global automotive recall crisis is bad and getting worse. It’s bad enough that car companies are resorting to desperate measures to locate cars with o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 10, 2016
The Future Networked Car gathering put on by the International Telecommunications Union at the Geneva Motor Show last week highlighted the intensifying debate ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 10, 2016
At the WorldDAB gathering at the Geneva Motor Show yesterday I got an eerie feeling about just how different Americans are from Europeans. After the third pres...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 10, 2016
INRIX has pulled the equivalent of throwing a Hail Mary pass with the announcement of its acquisition of automotive app integrator OpenCar. INRIX CEO, Bri...
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Kevin Li
| Mar 09, 2016
2015 was an extraordinary year in China’s auto industry as many Internet companies and startups rushed in, bringing numerous surprises. Examples include C...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 04, 2016
The recent plateau in smartphone sales growth has highlighted the unbroken growth trajectory being experienced and anticipated in the automotive industry. Whil...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 21, 2016
A little over a year ago the automotive aftermarket got a jolt when Jalopnik reported on the vulnerability of Progressive's Snapshot OBDII plug-in device. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 19, 2016
Some CEO’s make things look easy and appear to enjoy their work. CEO’s like Richard Branson and Warren Buffet come to mind. These are guys that cle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 19, 2016
Waze’s Connected Citizens program continues to get a lot of positive attention for its partnerships with cities and states around the world. The program ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2016
With hundreds of billions of dollars overseas and ridiculous profits domestically it is safe to say that Apple can have its way with whatever industry, market o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2016
The U.S. government may not come to take our guns, but it might come to take our cars. That was the thought coursing through my mind the morning after th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2016
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a traffic camera video may be worth millions. TrafficLand is poised to transform forever the use of traffic camera...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2015
The farther we come, the farther we have to go. While progress in advancing personal transportation was made in 2015, the year closes with glaring elements of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 30, 2015
Imagine Google without the invasion of privacy or Apple without the proprietary platform and technologies and what you have is Amazon. Amazon closes 2015...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 15, 2015
Observers may be forgiven for viewing Volkswagen’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in January as an act of contortion worthy of Cirque du Soleil....
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 10, 2015
The so-called battle for the automotive dashboard is not a zero sum game and radio will win. Let's consider the latest infotainment insurgencies. SiriusX...
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