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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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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 16, 2012
The very organizations that present themselves as most concerned with the welfare of the driving public are actually impairing the adoption of automotive safety...
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Kevin Mak
| Jan 16, 2012
The North American International Auto Show was opened in Detroit on January 9th, 2012. In comparison to earlier shows, Detroit revealed greater optimism i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2012
Predictive traffic is the single most important telematics application. This conclusion is borne out by the need for predictive modeling when creating navigati...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 31, 2011
Embedded telematics systems like OnStar ought to act as the car maker’s wingman, which is defined by Wikipedia as “a pilot who supports another in a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 30, 2011
Traffic is a little bit like the weather. Everybody complains about traffic, but it seems like nobody is able to do anything about it. That will change in 2012...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 24, 2011
State Farm and OnStar have a Christmas present for you but you need to be an existing State Farm customer and a former OnStar subscriber and you need to act bef...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 20, 2011
TomTom continues to cut a swath of innovation in the midst of a high wire rewiring of its business in the face of declining portable navigation device demand.&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 13, 2011
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that all 50 U.S. states introduce bans on the use of portable devices in vehicles. The move comes in re...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 25, 2011
The European Commission is targeting 2015 for final eCall implementation by car makers. Russia has set a firm December 2013 as the date for implementation of i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 24, 2011
J.D. Power and Associates has released its latest customer satisfaction report on navigation. Car makers and their suppliers will be poring over the results to...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 23, 2011
According to an interview with Auto Express magazine in November 2011, Koji Sato, deputy chief engineer for product planning said: “We are working on a nu...
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Ian Riches
| Nov 16, 2011
I've just go back from a very enjoyable couple of days in Munich, where I was invited to present at the 1st Ethernet & IP @ Automotive Techday, which w...
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Chris Schreiner
| Nov 08, 2011
Ford announced upgrades to SYNC’s interface, which are meant to make it easier to use and more visually pleasing. These upgrades will be available to all ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 01, 2011
It’s important for one to know one’s place in the world. This is especially difficult given the fact that one’s place may change. When this ...
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Chris Schreiner
| Oct 05, 2011
Yesterday Apple confirmed the rumor that they are integrating an enhanced speech recognition system on the iPhone. The iPhone 4S will be equipped with “Si...
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