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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 08, 2014
It has become fashionable in the auto industry to promise to protect customer privacy. Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board of Management Martin Winterkorn ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 07, 2014
I just returned from Telematics Update 2014 in Detroit – the leading global event focused on vehicle connectivity – and I came upon a story on theca...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 02, 2014
Against the depressing tableau of General Motors and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives sub-committ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 01, 2014
It is somehow fitting that the day before April Fool’s Day, when GM’s CEO will be testifying before the U.S. Congress on the now 2M+ unit ignition s...
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Kevin Mak
| Mar 24, 2014
On March 17th, Paris instituted a very brief ban on vehicles entering the city, based on license plate numbers, in a desperate attempt to limit pollution levels...
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Kevin Mak
| Jan 07, 2014
In addition to developments in the wireless charging of hybrid and electric vehicles reported in the blog, EVS27 – Growing Interest in Electrification, Ne...
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Kevin Mak
| Dec 17, 2013
Ian Riches, Director of the Automotive Electronics Service at Strategy Analytics, discusses the outlook for auto makers worldwide and Volkswagen’s strateg...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 25, 2013
Some 4,010 visitors attended the 27th Electric Vehicle Symposium at Barcelona, compared to around 5,000 visitors to the previous EVS26 held at the larger Los An...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 04, 2013
The acquisition of Nokia’s devices business by Microsoft highlighted the key role played by operating system software and maps. The Microsoft acquisition ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 29, 2013
Watching “Iron Man 3” on multiple United westbound flights recently it suddenly hit me like a bolt out of the blue – what consumers really wan...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2013
I am speaking to the National Associate of Insurance Commissioners tomorrow, Monday, in Indianapolis, IN, on the subject of distracted driving and on behalf of...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2013
General Motors has begun advertising the integration of Siri in the Chevrolet Sonic. The ad is a work of art (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aVDp-OQaA) on a p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 08, 2013
The back-up camera mandate should be implemented. A simplified do-not-touch-your-phone law should be promoted. And DSRC modules should be mandated on commercial...
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Ian Riches
| Jul 12, 2013
There is currently huge interest in the field of "autonomous vehicles", with there now looking a realistic prospect that some form if self-driving car could be ...
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Kevin Mak
| Apr 05, 2013
Threat to Charging Infrastructures – Emergence of New Super-Efficient, Conventionally-Powered Compact Models
The global banking crisis of 2008/9 resulted ...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 07, 2012
On November 6th, Qualcomm briefed the automotive industry on its progress with the HALO inductive charging system for electric vehicles. This blog reports on th...
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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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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
| 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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