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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2014
In the era of de-contenting cars we expect to see side-mounted rearview mirrors and door handles go away along with keyfobs, standard transmissions and interna...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 08, 2014
Day after day goes by with no resolution to the current auto recall crisis gripping the U.S. The number of fatalities attributed to GM’s ignition switch r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 07, 2014
The Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate in this week’s mid-term elections throws into doubt the prospect of the Obama administration making any progres...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 24, 2014
I’ve just come from the site of the 15th Western China International Fair in Chengdu and the booth of the Telematics Industry Application Alliance (TIAA) ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 14, 2014
Google is quietly calling the tune in automotive technology development. I see it every day.
Two companies have found success recently in bringing advanced vehi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 20, 2014
The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking to mandate the installation of a device in cars for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. For some reason the agen...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 18, 2014
In the eyes of the car industry the only thing worse than telling car makers what kind of cars to build is telling dealers what kind of cars to sell. Both pro...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 10, 2014
J.D. Power waded into the swamp of automotive voice recognition technology last week at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminar i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2014
The Annual Traverse City Management Briefing Seminar quietly concluded this week without shedding any newsworthy light on the future of alternative powertrains,...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 07, 2014
I thought the Mercedes S Class was the most advanced car on the road, thanks in large part to its safety system portfolio and multiple expert reviews. Dan Car...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 06, 2014
Last December two hackers, Charlie Miller, security engineer for Twitter, and Chris Valasek, (left, bottom) director of security intelligence at IOActive, tried...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 24, 2014
Ford’s Mark Fields started 2014 with the announcement of aluminum-bodied F-150s and, following his appointment as CEO, has doubled down on the fuel effici...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 21, 2014
There is a spooky statistical confluence in the U.S. between highway fatalities and deaths resulting from gun violence (homicides and suicides, combined). Both ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 18, 2014
The time has finally arrived to privatize the safety testing activities of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and to shift the funding model of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 04, 2014
I take the title of my blog from the Philip K. Dick science fiction novel upon which the movie "Blade Runner" was based. One element of the movie is bounty hu...
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Kevin Li
| Jul 02, 2014
Jointly sponsored by Chinese Satellite Navigation Office (CSNO), Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Space Agency and GLONASS Union...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 26, 2014
Among actor Michael McDonald's more unusual credits is the role of "Stuart" on the television program Mad TV. Stuart is a precocious child of indeterminate ph...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 21, 2014
Okay, I'll admit it. I was one of many that praised Waze for its clever use of crowd sourced traffic information to create an application that attracted mil...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 17, 2014
At an International Motor Press Association luncheon in New York City today GlobalAutomakers President and CEO John Bozzella noted that questions were being r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 17, 2014
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News are reporting rumors of a potential acquisition of Nuance Communications by Samsung and/or private equity investors. ...
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