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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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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 22, 2016
Speaking as part of the digital track at this week's NAB confab, John Ellis proclaimed the demise of the dashboard radio in the coming world of automated vehicl...
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Richard Robinson
| Apr 21, 2016
The Automotive Infotainment & Telematics 2015 tier one supplier revenue market shares are out and while there is not much movement at the very top of the ta...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 20, 2016
“Truth is a pathless land.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Car companies and their suppliers are increasingly seeking to deliver a contextualized experi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 17, 2016
After being flayed in absentia at a mid-week media event in Washington, DC, for shipping “zero-star cars,” General Motors responded the following da...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 14, 2016
Sometimes you just feel old. Someone uses an expression that sounds unfamiliar or odd to you and you suddenly discover you are the odd one out. That...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 10, 2016
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) held a public hearing in Washington on self-driving cars last week. As reported by the Verge,&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 06, 2016
Maximum hype is achieved in a market at the point at which the delta between market expectations for a new technology’s potential is at its greatest remov...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 04, 2016
Senior OnStar executives have long intoned at industry events that the customer owns his or her data. The only problem is that the customer is only allowe...
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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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