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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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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 03, 2013
When visiting Shanghai a couple months ago I was struck by the fact that multiple auto dealers visited during my stay did not have cars available with activated...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 03, 2013
Tweddle set out more than five years ago to shift its printed manual business into the digital world. That step has led the company to the development of...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 22, 2013
Best Buy is kicking its Commercial Division automotive aftermarket efforts into overdrive in 2013 with plans to more than double the number of major metro area...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 21, 2013
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.” – Margot Channing as played by Better Davis in “All about Eve”
It i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 11, 2013
Car maker emphasis on mandated modernization, standardization or expansion across dealership bodies has almost no proven investment return justification, accord...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 03, 2013
“Gentlemen… We have the technology…” paraphrasing Richard Anderson in character as Oscar Goldman in the opening sequence of “The...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 31, 2013
“Most maps, including Google Maps, have not yet mapped the area.” – The Huffingtonpost (Sept. 2012) describing the Angelika Film Center in the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2013
2012 will be remembered as the year of usage-based insurance. But in retrospect it is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Is usage-based insurance the s...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 30, 2012
Just picked up my wife's Toyota Sienna from the local Toyota dealer where I bought the car and heard a familiar tale of woe. Seems a customer had a bad ac...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 18, 2012
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its 2013 “Most Wanted List” of solutions for transportation hazards including everythi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 11, 2012
Why is Pohanka telling customers to come on in for service without an appointment? The first ads I noticed were for Chevrolet, but it soon became clear that Poh...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 07, 2012
On November 6th, Qualcomm briefed the automotive industry on its progress with the HALO inductive charging system for electric vehicles. This blog reports on th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 06, 2012
A traffic tempest has erupted in a Washington, DC, teapot. The leading local broadcast traffic information provider, WTOP “with as many as 20 full- and p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 28, 2012
It is true that some of the latest systems launched by the likes of Chrysler, GM, Renault and PSA have sexy user interfaces featuring familiar and unfamiliar ic...
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