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UX Soup: Episode 22 - CES 2021 Recap

by Chris Schreiner | Jan 19, 2021

Chris, Derek, and Lisa review the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, held virtually this year. They discuss the UX of attending the show, overarching UX themes, an... ...

Ann Arbor to Get 20 Stupid Intersections

by Roger Lanctot | Jan 12, 2021

Mere weeks after the U.S. Department of Transportation learned that it was losing half of the wireless spectrum dedicated to automotive safety applications, due... ...

Uber v. Alto: L.A. Ride Hail Street Fight

by Roger Lanctot | Jan 12, 2021

Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart and Doordash were successful in their nearly $200M effort to pass California’s Proposition 22 in November – to allo... ...

Car Wars 2021

by Roger Lanctot | Jan 08, 2021

A strange narrative took hold in the U.S. at the end of 2020 that vehicle sales were in decline, that cars weren’t selling. The reality is something ... ...

2021: New Priorities for Map Makers

by Roger Lanctot | Jan 06, 2021

A new year finds the transportation industry facing new priorities and new metrics to measure success. “Mobility” changed the focus of transpor... ...

Connected Car Data Fake News

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 31, 2020

"And the lights all went out in Massachusetts" - The Bee Gees "Massachusetts" It may be no surprise that in the year of presidentially alleged voting fraud and ... ...

NHTSA: Unsafe at Any Speed

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 31, 2020

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced that he will step down from his post on January 20th, the day President-elect Joseph Biden will be sworn in. Pai... ...

NSC: 2X+ Highway Fatality Boost for Xmas 2020

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 24, 2020

Christmas 2020 is here and the forecasters of travel behavior and highway fatalities have reached into their bag and pulled out some tidings of woe – with... ...

Tesla's Musk Mocks Marketing

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 23, 2020

The Automotive News had a standout year in 2020 - thriving at a time when many publishers suffered. With factories and dealerships shuttered in the spring ... ...

No iCar for Me, Thank You

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 22, 2020

It’s been a couple years since the auto industry was abuzz with rumors of Apple’s plans to make a car – a 2015-2018 buzz. Now that rumor ... ...

New Dawn for U.S. DOT under Biden

by Roger Lanctot | Dec 21, 2020

The U.S. DOT and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration need a reset and a new business model. The arrival of the Biden Administration in Janua... ...

Uber ATG's Legacy