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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
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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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 15, 2014
American Honda Motor (AHM) is said to be investing “millions of dollars” in an effort led by a music industry “dream team” to launch a m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 08, 2014
It has become fashionable in the auto industry to promise to protect customer privacy. Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board of Management Martin Winterkorn ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 07, 2014
I just returned from Telematics Update 2014 in Detroit – the leading global event focused on vehicle connectivity – and I came upon a story on theca...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 30, 2014
Three years after I wrote this blog (Me, OnStar and Irene - http://tinyurl.com/n7sccck), and nine years after Katrina OnStar has notified all current and former...
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Kevin Li
| May 14, 2014
After Tencent invested 1.173 billion RMB to acquire 11.28% of Navinfo, the three giant Internet service providers-Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (so called ‘B...
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