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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 19, 2016
Waze’s Connected Citizens program continues to get a lot of positive attention for its partnerships with cities and states around the world. The program ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2016
With hundreds of billions of dollars overseas and ridiculous profits domestically it is safe to say that Apple can have its way with whatever industry, market o...
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Derek Viita
| Jan 25, 2016
Last week, a Nissan Leaf outfitted as a test vehicle for an autonomous driving startup called Cruise Automation crashed into a parked car in San Francisco. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2016
The U.S. government may not come to take our guns, but it might come to take our cars. That was the thought coursing through my mind the morning after th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2016
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a traffic camera video may be worth millions. TrafficLand is poised to transform forever the use of traffic camera...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2015
The farther we come, the farther we have to go. While progress in advancing personal transportation was made in 2015, the year closes with glaring elements of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 30, 2015
Imagine Google without the invasion of privacy or Apple without the proprietary platform and technologies and what you have is Amazon. Amazon closes 2015...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 15, 2015
Observers may be forgiven for viewing Volkswagen’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in January as an act of contortion worthy of Cirque du Soleil....
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 10, 2015
The so-called battle for the automotive dashboard is not a zero sum game and radio will win. Let's consider the latest infotainment insurgencies. SiriusX...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 07, 2015
Tesla’s launch of autopilot on the Model S P85/P90 has the auto industry singing the blues. Few auto makers are prepared to launch similar functionality ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 30, 2015
In May of 1897, American writer and humorist Mark Twain wrote a letter explaining that an ailing cousin in Europe was stimulating press reports of his passing.&...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 25, 2015
Consumers are buying more new cars, keeping them longer, driving them less and dying more often. That is the tale of the automotive industry in the U.S. in 201...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 17, 2015
Ford has announced its plans to launch its first vehicle with an optional built-in LTE connection, the 2016 Ford Escape, while simultaneously maintaining its cl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2015
The biggest question facing the Connected Car Expo (opening Tuesday) this week – part of the Los Angeles Auto Show – is determining precisely what ...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| Nov 13, 2015
Tesla Motors recently hosted a test drive event at Chicheley Hall, UK, and so I took this opportunity to experience the Autopilot suite of semi-autonomous drivi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 06, 2015
Two questions arise every year about this time in the automotive industry. Will Apple buy TomTom? Where is Samsung? Apple and TomTom appear to be content with ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 28, 2015
U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Tesla Motors have a lot in common. Both have proven to be disruptors of their respective markets while simultaneou...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 22, 2015
With Brazil’s automotive market in the midst of a deep swoon, the industry got one tiny bit of good news this week: the Contran 245 mandate was suspended...
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Derek Viita
| Oct 22, 2015
This week, AAA released their latest round of distraction research which focused on hands-free in-vehicle infotainment systems. In one study, 10 different...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 15, 2015
The automotive security situation is bad. How bad is it? Only 19% of industry executives surveyed by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of Rogue Wave Software and...
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