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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
Can it be just five years ago that General Motors CEO Mary Barra, then head of global product development, purchasing and supply chain for the company, was tell...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2018
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
| Nov 08, 2018
The latest reliability report from Consumer Reports which dumped on domestics and rained glory upon Asian imports highlighted a conundrum facing car makers.&n...
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Derek Viita
| Nov 05, 2018
Last week, GM announced it was suspending operations of its monthly premium subscription service BOOK by Cadillac. GM and media sources cited the exorbita...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 25, 2018
The latest reliability report from Consumer Reports which dumped on domestics and rained glory upon Asian imports highlighted a conundrum facing car makers.&nb...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 24, 2018
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 p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 23, 2018
The cybersecurity of automobiles has become an increasingly critical issue in the context of autonomous vehicle development. While creators of autonomous ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 22, 2018
Google says it wants to charge fees to handset makers in Europe for Android apps such as Googlemaps and Gmail, according to the New York Times. The move is cle...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 17, 2018
The automotive navigation industry had another Google moment, Tuesday, as TomTom faced the investor community for its third quarter earnings call. As is ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 17, 2018
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk pulled a rabbit out of his hat last month making thousands of cars vanish and converting reports of production and delivery hell in...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2018
Here we go again. A hurricane is closing in on the U.S. East Coast and General Motors' OnStar connected car team - now part of something called Global Connecte...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2018
Florida is poised to surpass California and Arizona as the leader in autonomous driving development thanks to an aggressive legislative agenda that began in 20...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 02, 2018
The Reverend Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, held forth to his flock on yesterday’s earnings call. Musk described at length his efforts to lead the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 01, 2018
From sexual harassment, to surveilling regulators, to Uber drivers and taxi drivers committing suicide (because they can't make a living) the pervasive creepin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 30, 2018
A colleague of mine questions why I drive, or rather why I own, a BMW. I own a BMW because the company and the brand stand at the crossroads of connected and d...
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Derek Viita
| Jun 25, 2018
Late last week, local law enforcement released its report on the fatal crash involving a vehicle from Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG). The result...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 17, 2018
Toyota Motor North America CEO James Lentz got a letter from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week recognizing Toyota’s announced pl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 09, 2018
Traffic is like the weather. Everyone complains about it, but no one can seem to actually do anything about it. Just as we have a widely acknowledged problem w...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 09, 2018
If there was a central takeaway to Nvidia's GTC event last week in San Jose it was this: autonomous vehicles are already operating or at least testing in virtu...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 03, 2018
Just as California has called the regulatory tune as far as vehicle emissions are concerned, with the impact of the California Air Resources Board's decisions ...
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