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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
A week ago, New York City livery driver Douglas Schifter committed suicide in front of City Hall in New York after posting a 1,700-word note on Facebook regardi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
The news of a pedestrian fatality in Tempe, Ariz., resulting from the operation of an Uber autonomous vehicle has set off alarm bells throughout the AV developm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
In "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" circa 1971, Gene Wilder plays a vaguely misanthropic Willy Wonka who leads the young winners of his golden wrapper co...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
From sexual harassment, to surveilling regulators, to Uber drivers and taxi drivers committing suicide (because they can't make a living) the pervasive creepine...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
When cities put on a press event to announce they are welcoming a company to town to test autonomous vehicles within the city limits the news is greeted with po...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
There’s a new kid on the rideshare block, Bounce, which is rewriting the rules of driver compensation. In fact, the company’s compensation inno...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
Attendees of CES 2019 arriving at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport next week will have four options for getting to their hotels: a shuttle offerin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 08, 2019
Micromobility – characterized by shared bicycles, scooters and other wheeled devices - was all the rage in 2018 and that enthusiasm has carried over into ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 07, 2019
It’s painful and expensive testing fully-automated vehicles with safety drivers and engineers in the front seat. Just ask General Motors.
In yesterda...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 06, 2019
TomTom's earnings call at 9 a.m. this morning should be an attention grabber coming, as it does, on the heels of selling off its telematics division for €9...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2019
There was a CES 2019 interview in The Verge (theverge.com) last week of Patrick Brady, described as Head of Android Auto for Google, in which more than 6,000 wo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2019
Automotive cybersecurity is an intractable nightmare with significant though inchoate implications for consumers and existential exposure for auto makers. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 22, 2019
Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM was kind enough to take on the task of an hour-long keynote at CES 2019 in Las Vegas last week. She used ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 22, 2019
A funny question was asked at an automated vehicle tech conference last week. But, first, some context.
The biggest news in Israel last week was Mobileye&r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 14, 2019
Google, Apple and Tesla Motors introduced the automotive industry to FOMO – the fear of missing out – more than six years with their public and pr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 07, 2019
The often pedantic debate over how cars will directly communicate with other cars and infrastructure will culminate suitably at CES 2019 with multiple C-V2X ann...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2019
The annual trek to Las Vegas arrives this year with visions of sinusitis, chapped lips, flat feet and new concepts for automotive cockpit systems. It is no...
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