Automotive Blogs

  • Let's Pass the Hot Car Act of 2019

    by Roger Lanctot | Sep 18, 2019
    It's happened again. The 42nd fatality of 2019 in the U.S. from a child being left behind in a hot car has occurred - this time, in New Mexico. While horrific a... ...
  • Let's Pass the Hot Cars Act of 2019

    by Roger Lanctot | Sep 18, 2019
    It's happened again. The 42nd fatality of 2019 in the U.S. from a child being left behind in a hot car has occurred - this time, in New Mexico. While horrific a... ...
  • Ford Prioritizes Safety; Revolutionizes Connectivity

    by Roger Lanctot | Sep 11, 2019
    Ford Motor Company’s debt may have been downgraded to junk this week, but the company’s savvy strategy for vehicle safety and connectivity has had a... ...
  • GM's Dashboard Surrender

    by Roger Lanctot | Sep 11, 2019
    There was a time when General Motors’ OnStar offering was readily and clearly understood by consumers for the fact that it did one thing incredibly well:&... ...
  • Leave the Driving to Musk

    by Roger Lanctot | Sep 03, 2019
    For years Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk has been taunting the global insurance industry that he would offer insurance coverage directly from Tesla if he was... ...
  • Radio: Relevant, Unifying, Intimate, Vulnerable

    by Roger Lanctot | Aug 28, 2019
    It was hard to escape the notion while attending RadiodaysAsia2019 this week that the world is experiencing what can only be called “peak radio.”&nb... ...
  • Tesla Stakes Insurance Claim

    by Roger Lanctot | Aug 23, 2019
    In its most recent shareholders' meeting Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk noted that the Tesla Model 3 is the highest revenue producing car in the U.S. and fourth b... ...
  • Alto Taps Uber's Consumer Surplus

    by Roger Lanctot | Aug 20, 2019
    In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, four researchers using ride data provided by Uber determined that for every dollar spent by Ub... ...
  • Trailze to Jumpstart Scooter Revolution

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 31, 2019
    In his book “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” Peter Norton describes the onset of motor vehicles in the first tw... ...
  • GM's Not-so-Super Cruise

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 25, 2019
    Dan Ammann, CEO of GM’s Cruise operation, has been given the unenviable task of converting $7.25B and hundreds of employees (1,500+ by Ammann’s coun... ...
  • Mixed Messages on Safety from State Farm

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 23, 2019
    The auto insurance industry in the U.S. has a tortured relationship with car makers and the automotive industry. Nothing has been more trying for this relations... ...
  • 5G Faith & the Automotive Industry

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 18, 2019
    As the automotive industry slowly comes to terms with the implications of 5G connections in cars there are few outside the industry that understand the signific... ...
  • Dude, Where's My Car2Go?

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 16, 2019
    Car2Go had 75 of its vehicles stolen in a single day in Chicago earlier this year, later recovering most of the vehicles – though many had been stripped... ...
  • Can SiC and GaN-based power electronics open a “window of profitability” for the automotive semiconductor industry?

    by Asif Anwar | Jul 16, 2019
    We’ve just released the Strategy Analytics Powertrain Body Chassis & Safety (PBCS) service report, “HEV-EV Semiconductor Technology Outlook: Wha... ...
  • Could Trump Slump Give Mobility a Bump?

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 15, 2019
    Reports from Reuters last week suggested that the European Union member states "should brace for U.S. tariffs on several fronts in the coming months," based on ... ...
  • Navya: Where's the Remote?

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 12, 2019
    When a commercial truck struck a Navya autonomous shuttle in Las Vegas on November 8, 2017, it set off a torrent of headlines around the world. Now, the Nationa... ...
  • Hayden AI: The Future of Law Enforcement

    by Roger Lanctot | Jul 10, 2019
    By now, we are all familiar with license plate readers being used by public authorities for everything from toll payment to camera-equipped patrol cars tracking... ...

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