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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2020
2019 will be remembered as the year the automotive industry decided to right-size its autonomous vehicle ambitions. Multiple auto makers tempered their v...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 26, 2020
A crisis on the pandemic scale of COVID-19 needs a solution of an equally epic scope. The thousands of workers that still actually must show up for work in an e...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 25, 2020
By now it is pretty clear that everywhere outside of China and South Korea human beings are doing a lousy job of "social distancing," locking down, and shelteri...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 24, 2020
Car companies, start-ups, and investors across the globe have embraced and spread the virus of autonomous vehicle technology. The infection got its start ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 23, 2020
It was 31 years ago that Chris Webber, vice president of the Global Automotive Practice (GAP) at Strategy Analytics, began his automotive research and consultin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2020
As the world wrestles with the consequences of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, running wild laying waste to health care systems, communities, and economies, it i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2020
The arrival of COVID-19 is the cure for all that has ailed the world for the past few years. Hundreds of thousands have been infected. Thousands hav...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2020
The hideous reality of the coronavirus has exposed the hideous realities of the mobility industry with sobering implications for all. At its core, mobility...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 05, 2020
As technology consumers we make tradeoffs.
We let Google peer into our online activity and email communications and we even accept annoying advertisements tied ...
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Kevin Nolan
| Mar 03, 2020
The surge in adoption of streaming music services, especially among younger consumer segments, has led many to predict the demise of traditional broadcast radio...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 18, 2020
A funny thing happened on the way to Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) event scheduled for this week. The event organizer - the GSMA &nd...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 13, 2020
Financial analysts were thrilled with Uber's latest earnings report in spite of ongoing loss-making activity and legal woes. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's enthus...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 07, 2020
The announcement of Ericsson's decision to bypass the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this year due to the onset of the novel coronavirus set off alarm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 06, 2020
Now that Apple’s new navigation maps are out it appears that the years-old rumors of an inevitable acquisition of TomTom by Apple can finally be laid to r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 05, 2020
‘Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one
- “Twisted” – Ross an...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 05, 2020
“It is kind of crazy that the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia when the Hillary campaign wasn’t even in contact with Michigan. It’s a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 04, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Secretary Elaine Chao sought to make a splash at CES2020 in Las Vegas by announcing her Automated Vehicles 4.0 pla...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 30, 2020
On Monday, General Motors announced its production plans for its Hamtramck assembly plant to include the company’s first all-electric pickup, to be foll...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 30, 2020
In a rare and perhaps unfortunate moment of candor, Cruise Automation CEO Dan Ammann wrote, in his blog post describing the emergence of Cruise (a subsidia...
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