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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 15, 2018
Jalopnik's report that car maker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) had experienced a failed software update that had thrown the infotainment systems in some MY 2...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 14, 2018
The Trump administration released its self-described $1.5T infrastructure plan this week, which is actually a $200B plan requiring $1.3T to be paid by states o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 13, 2018
“There’s no reason to buy a BMW.” So said a senior BMW digital marketing executive to me last year on stage at an industry event. I...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 12, 2018
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 regard...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 31, 2018
For nearly 20 years the automobile industry in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation has been working toward the goal of enabling cars to &ldq...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 29, 2018
As a parting gift to New Jersey, the automobile industry, the nation and the world, former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, signed legislation establishing...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 29, 2018
A wave of Federal and State legislative activity is underway to restore the principle and policy of Net Neutrality heaved overboard last year by Ajit Pai, chai...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 25, 2018
General Motors has had wireless connections to its cars for more than 21 years, thanks to Project Beacon, better known as OnStar, now operated as Global Connec...
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Derek Viita
| Dec 07, 2017
This week GM announced the release of Marketplace, a new platform allowing consumers to conduct a variety of commerce-related interactions from their car.&...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 12, 2017
There hasn’t been this much excitement in Munich since the 1920’s. Nvidia’s great pivot was on display at the GPU Technology Conference ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 10, 2017
Some days it seems like the world is obsessed with autonomous vehicles. No one really understands why. Surveys tell us that consumers are both interested ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 10, 2017
You can’t legislate safety. Safety is complicated. Automotive safety is positively mysterious if not impossible.
The U.S. Senate, and a compli...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 05, 2017
In what has become an almost-annual tradition, the American Automobile Association (AAA) is making the media rounds with distracted driving research the organiz...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 04, 2017
In a Medium post yesterday, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise Automation, acquired last year by GM) discussed his company's rationale for focusing their autonomous drive...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 04, 2017
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is considering autonomous vehicle legislation today – the American Vision for Safer Tr...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 04, 2017
There is a soccer chant crafted by Manchester City fans in the United Kingdom seeking to cast shade on fans of Liverpool FC by suggesting that the latter are i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 28, 2017
In spite of all of the terrible stories about vehicle-inflicted traffic and highway fatalities, the automobile industry continues to post impressive profit figu...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 25, 2017
Enterprise Holdings launched an advertising campaign at the beginning of 2017 positioning the company as a seller, renter and sharer of motor vehicles of all sh...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 21, 2017
China is considering joining the rising bandwagon of nations seeking to cap sales of fossil fuel vehicles. General Motors CEO Mary Barra spoke on the sub...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 13, 2017
The Automotive News informs us that General Motors' Cruise Automation division claims to have created the first true self-driving car. Okay, well, not exactly...
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