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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 06, 2015
Two questions arise every year about this time in the automotive industry. Will Apple buy TomTom? Where is Samsung? Apple and TomTom appear to be content with ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 28, 2015
U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Tesla Motors have a lot in common. Both have proven to be disruptors of their respective markets while simultaneou...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 22, 2015
With Brazil’s automotive market in the midst of a deep swoon, the industry got one tiny bit of good news this week: the Contran 245 mandate was suspended...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 15, 2015
The automotive security situation is bad. How bad is it? Only 19% of industry executives surveyed by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of Rogue Wave Software and...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 09, 2015
Listening to the playback of Volkswagen North America President and CEO Michael Horn’s testimony before the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on O...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 06, 2015
How do you talk about the future of transportation in this day and age without talking about Apple, Google and Uber? Attend the 22nd ITS World Congress i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 04, 2015
Volkswagen’s emissions test cheating woes are unfolding in a painfully slow but familiar manner as the corporation circles its legal wagons to confront l...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 28, 2015
As the lawsuits and government investigations of Volkswagen unfold, the automotive industry is just beginning to comprehend the long and short-term impact of V...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 17, 2015
From the here-we-go-again department comes word of Microsoft seeking a partner to bring its Cortana speech recognition platform to the automotive market. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 17, 2015
That’s what my cab driver said yesterday on the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in reference to Waze. He couldn’t believe such a wonderful navigat...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 16, 2015
I am just back from Beijing, China, where the people behind the steering wheels make Boston drivers look positively passive. In fact, the driving behavior in B...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 14, 2015
A year ago in China the conventional wisdom was that social networking app WeChat was coming to car dashboards. It was only a matter of time and a process of de...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 27, 2015
A growing population of automakers is quietly calling for the shutdown of the on-board diagnostic (OBDII) port in passenger vehicles. Car makers would prefer t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2015
If you are looking to see your tax dollars being frittered away in some place other than the Middle East you need look no further than Interstate 96 and 696 ou...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2015
How do you fill an executive position no one wants? One of my sons, an IT professional, recently told me about his boss leaving. I asked if he was a candidate ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 17, 2015
Okay. Okay. Maybe that is a mild bit of overstatement. But in my mind it is true. When you can’t get a decent discount from your car insurance company fo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 12, 2015
According to Wikipedia, the debut album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Are You Experienced” – is widely recognized as one of the gre...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 05, 2015
The two executives were very polite when they met to testify before the Congressional Internet of Things Caucus last week. But beneath the veneer of pleas...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 27, 2015
If you are going to connect things to other things the first thing you need to get right is security. It’s a little like building the mote before you let ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 11, 2015
A growing coterie of auto industry experts is forecasting an autopocalypse* of declining vehicle sales as driverless cars increase the usage rate of the existin...
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