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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 04, 2020
The Information tells us today that General Motors' Cruise Automation self-driving car unit has acquired automotive radar maker Astyx. The move can be seen as a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 02, 2020
It seems so obvious to me. Ride hailing companies and taxi cabs or any for-hire automobile-based transportation, should be retrofitted (if not already equi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 01, 2020
It's happened again. Yesterday, on a highway in Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 plowed into the trailer of an overturned truck. Accounts of the event suggest the vehicl...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 29, 2020
Some people, U.S. President Donald J. Trump among them, will have you believe that one day, soon, we will wake up and everything will be as it was before the ar...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 28, 2020
Markus Villig, the CEO of ride-hailing operator Bolt, had good news for his fellow panelists on an April mobility-focused Webcast put on by The Information. The...
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Asif Anwar
| May 27, 2020
The full impact of COVID-19 in economic and supply chain disruption terms, remains a dynamic variable that will dictate automotive semiconductor demand in the n...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 25, 2020
If you’re wondering what the long-term impact of Uber Technologies has been on the transportation industry you need look no further than this weekend&rsqu...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 22, 2020
The once-vaunted mobility sector is in the toilet. Ride hailing demand has plunged as much as 80% around the world - with the possible exception of markets in r...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 15, 2020
In February, the U.S. became the only country of 140 participating in the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety (a joint effort of the United Nat...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| May 14, 2020
The year is 2035; humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Every robot and machine created has a positronic brain. This...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 13, 2020
Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune, so no one will suspect I'm afraid
-- "Anna" - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 12, 2020
Hertz has an earnings call this morning. Things don't look good and a bankruptcy filing is not out of the question. The current results are not awful, reflectin...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 11, 2020
With Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk spewing accusations of civil rights violations and fascism in the face of restrictions forcing him to keep his Fremont, C...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 11, 2020
Following Uber Technologies’ earnings report after the market closed Thursday there were a number of conflicting narratives. Some analysts saw weak s...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 06, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a gut-wrenching experience for millions of people around the world - and heart-wrenching as well - and it's not over. Yet even ...
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