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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 29, 2012
The automotive collision repair business in the U.S. grew 3.3% in 2011 to $38.7B, in spite of a decline in miles driven and the number of collisions, accordi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2012
The news from General Motors, reported by the GMAuthority a week ago, was that 1,849 Volts were sold in July a 125% increase over the year ago period and a 100-...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 20, 2012
Sometimes a company does something so wrong-headed it is impossible to ignore. The normally very clever executives at Scosche - pioneers in automotive infotainm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 29, 2012
Ten years into the current smartphone revolution some people and organizations still do not realize what is happening. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 28, 2012
The latest news from the world of peer-to-peer car sharing was the announcement of the formal launch of RelayRides’ cooperation with OnStar. The partnersh...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 16, 2012
Best Buy continues to report horrendous comparable store sales and negative financial results with no clear end in sight. The only two bright spots are mo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 14, 2012
Yesterday evening, while driving home from meetings in the New York metropolitan area, I had an extraordinary traffic information experience which highlighted a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 11, 2012
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
I am happy to report watching with great amusement the Siri television adver...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 05, 2012
Tuesday the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission and the Member States to make sure the eCall system will be installed in...
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Ian Riches
| Jun 21, 2012
I am now sat in San Antonio airport awaiting my flight back the the UK after the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF). I haven't attended the even...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 06, 2012
Insurance Telematics London 2012 represents a unique opportunity, this week, to discuss in open forum the suddenly center stage issues related to establishing i...
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Chris Schreiner
| Mar 27, 2012
In February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released recommendations to address driver distraction associated with in-vehicle electr...
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Kevin Mak
| Mar 22, 2012
On March 19th, Qualcomm presented its inductive charging technology for electric vehicles. It had recently acquired the company HaloIPT, an offshoot of th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2012
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was busy last week hosting three public comment sessions across the country on its driver distraction guideli...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 28, 2012
William Ford – executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company – became the first automotive industry executive to deliver a keynote at Mobile World Co...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 22, 2012
I recently visited Silicon Valley for the Telecom Council’s Mobile Forum on the Connected Car. The event was fascinating, but it was the day following th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 20, 2012
After failing in its frontal assault on automotive smartphone use last year, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has started 2012 wi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 17, 2012
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Administration has presented new proposed guidelines intended to encourage automakers to mitigate driver distraction whe...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 16, 2012
Plagued by uninsured drivers and fraudulent whiplash claims representing as much as £2B, the government of the United Kingdom is considering implem...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 20, 2012
Participants in and observers of the automotive industry are familiar with the normally glacial pace of change in the business. But change sometimes comes rapid...
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