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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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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 14, 2017
Normally if you are trying to solve a knotty problem in the automotive industry the best place to look for help with challenges philosophical or physical is Ge...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 14, 2017
These are trying times for car companies. Auto execs are left to watch speechless as the valuations of marginally profitable or completely unprofitable or...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 06, 2017
Some of the most terrifying highways in the world are sinuous and hilly rural two-lane roads with relatively high speed limits. Such were the circumstances in r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2017
In two weeks the latest installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise will debut bringing the concept of remote control of cars into the mainstream. Suffice ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2017
Some day soon, maybe this year or next, Tesla Motors is going to let the cat out of the bag that its cars are not only connected but are also subject to remote...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 14, 2017
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has famously dismissed hydrogen fuel ("fool") cells and LiDAR and even parted company with Mobileye over automated driving strategy. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 27, 2017
Qualcomm is a key common thread throughout industry momentum
In the emerging world of smarter and more automated cars, communication technology is playing a pro...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 15, 2017
On the eve of the annual Mobile World Congress gathering in Barcelona the U.S. automotive industry is facing a crisis and a critical turning point. Low gas...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2017
Lost in the swirl of negative publicity around Uber offering rides during last week’s taxi strike in New York City (held in protest of the Trump Administr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 27, 2017
I can't tell you how many times I have sat down with executives of large companies and startups who have tried to get me excited about geo-fencing. Geo-fencing ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2017
That's how Kymeta's senior vice president for land mobile puts it. Kymeta's new satellite technology meets the needs of the civilian armored vehicle segment and...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 16, 2017
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is holding the first meeting today of a new advisory committee focused, in its own words: "on automation across a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 02, 2017
The roster of automotive artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives is growing rapidly with Softbank working with Honda on the Emotion Engine for the Neuv self-d...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 02, 2017
If you are headed to Las Vegas for your New Year's celebration, the annual Consumer Electronics Show or just a good time, beware! According to some estimates N...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 19, 2016
Two pictures (above) tell a story. In one eight-year-old picture a Toyota Prius without a driver delivers a pizza in San Francisco. In a separate picture, a pe...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 19, 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposed rule this week which may ultimately require the installation of a communications box in every car manufa...
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