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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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Derek Viita
| Jan 25, 2016
Last week, a Nissan Leaf outfitted as a test vehicle for an autonomous driving startup called Cruise Automation crashed into a parked car in San Francisco. ...
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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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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 07, 2015
Tesla’s launch of autopilot on the Model S P85/P90 has the auto industry singing the blues. Few auto makers are prepared to launch similar functionality ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 30, 2015
In May of 1897, American writer and humorist Mark Twain wrote a letter explaining that an ailing cousin in Europe was stimulating press reports of his passing.&...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 25, 2015
Consumers are buying more new cars, keeping them longer, driving them less and dying more often. That is the tale of the automotive industry in the U.S. in 201...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 17, 2015
Ford has announced its plans to launch its first vehicle with an optional built-in LTE connection, the 2016 Ford Escape, while simultaneously maintaining its cl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2015
The biggest question facing the Connected Car Expo (opening Tuesday) this week – part of the Los Angeles Auto Show – is determining precisely what ...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| Nov 13, 2015
Tesla Motors recently hosted a test drive event at Chicheley Hall, UK, and so I took this opportunity to experience the Autopilot suite of semi-autonomous drivi...
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