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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 08, 2013
The back-up camera mandate should be implemented. A simplified do-not-touch-your-phone law should be promoted. And DSRC modules should be mandated on commercial...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 17, 2013
Millions of car crashes occur every year around the world and every crash is an opportunity to delight or lose a customer. Nissan clearly recognizes this ...
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Ian Riches
| Jul 12, 2013
There is currently huge interest in the field of "autonomous vehicles", with there now looking a realistic prospect that some form if self-driving car could be ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 07, 2013
Congratulations came from far and wide last week for the new U.S. Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx, former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Given the b...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 06, 2013
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in the U.S. launched an iOS smartphone app two weeks ago to share information with the public regarding the location o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 12, 2013
When executives heard about Verizon’s acquisition of Hughes last year they laughed, they gasped and then they applauded.
They laughed because $612M sounde...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 11, 2013
(This commentary was written at the request of and published simultaneously by AutomotiveWorld - http://tinyurl.com/lfxm4jf)
Brazil is known for its activist go...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 10, 2013
Google and its self-driving cars (SDCs) are scaring the wits out of the automotive industry. There’s nothing major car makers would like to see more than ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 02, 2013
A battle is erupting over the $400B vehicle repair and maintenance market in North America and the clarion call to arms was sounded at the Automotive Aftermark...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 28, 2013
Rumors ran rampant last week, and the week before, that Facebook and then Google were in talks to acquire Waze, the Israel-based crowd-sourced navigation soluti...
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| Apr 24, 2013
At Huawei's analyst summit in Shenzhen China, the Huawei team renewed its commitment to the connected car market. Following the announcement of its 3G and LTE c...
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Chris Schreiner
| Apr 24, 2013
Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released revised driver distraction guidelines. This long overdue revision came after t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 22, 2013
Pioneering UBI provider Progressive has changed up its messaging around the Snapshot usage-based insurance offering with a new ad campaign in the U.S. built upo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 14, 2013
Usage-based insurance is a consumer deception. It is a shell game being foisted on consumers to lure them into allowing their car insurance company to glance ov...
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Kevin Mak
| Apr 05, 2013
Threat to Charging Infrastructures – Emergence of New Super-Efficient, Conventionally-Powered Compact Models
The global banking crisis of 2008/9 resulted ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 31, 2013
At a time when governments around the world are raising gas taxes to discourage driving and fund the maintenance and expansion of transportation infrastructure...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 28, 2013
Telematics systems can do a lot of things these days, but one thing they cannot do is see to it that family members of unconscious crash victims are contacted i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 17, 2013
Returning to Brazil for the first time in a few months I was struck at the paucity of technology in the taxi cabs. Having recently been at the Consumer Electron...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 09, 2013
I have frequently expressed skepticism regarding the mass market potential of usage-based insurance and nothing about my experience with State Farm's DriveSafe...
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