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Roger Lanctot
| 5月 02, 2019
Uber knows very little about the cars and drivers on its network. The company has even fought legal battles to avoid doing background checks on those dri...
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Roger Lanctot
| 4月 24, 2019
Tesla Motors held an investor event at its Palo Alto headquarters yesterday. CEO Elon Musk and a series of Tesla executives announced a new in-house develo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 29, 2019
Lyft's initial public offering today is expected to be the biggest tech offering in two years. A public offering is very much like an elevator and everyone gett...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 25, 2019
The good news is that Lyft’s initial public offering is over-subscribed, according to published reports. That also happens to be the bad news.
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 08, 2019
Lyft’s S1 filing for its IPO is a sobering read, as such documents often are, requiring, as they do, the full disclosure of current financial circumstance...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 21, 2019
Pundits and pontificators are publishing viewpoints on a utopian future of smart cities and optimized transportation options populated with new mobility solutio...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 18, 2019
Taxi drivers across the world feel embattled – hemmed in physically by worsening traffic and financially by ride-hailing services. In London, there i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 11, 2019
Industry analysts are fond of painting terrifying pictures of catastrophic market changes resulting from disruptive technologies or business models. Nowher...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
It’s hard to be a thought leader around the future of transportation when the entire market seems to be moving in one of three directions simultaneously: ...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
The Automobility event, which starts today ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show, will be remembered for introducing the bot in a box. While Ford Motor Compan...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
Every conference has a presentation that seizes the moment in a series of slides that slices to the heart of whatever industry transformation is afoot. Suc...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
Two pictures (above) tell a story. In one eight-year-old picture a Toyota Prius without a driver delivers a pizza in San Francisco. In a separate picture, a pe...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
Lost in the swirl of negative publicity around Uber offering rides during last week’s taxi strike in New York City (held in protest of the Trump Administr...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
As the automotive industry faces and embraces its future in car sharing and a broad range of other ad hoc car usage scenarios and, ultimately, autonomous drivin...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
I get in my car every day and I ask myself: Really? Is this the best we can do? Is this as good as it gets? There’s got to be a better way....
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
A week ago, New York City livery driver Douglas Schifter committed suicide in front of City Hall in New York after posting a 1,700-word note on Facebook regardi...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
The news of a pedestrian fatality in Tempe, Ariz., resulting from the operation of an Uber autonomous vehicle has set off alarm bells throughout the AV developm...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
In "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" circa 1971, Gene Wilder plays a vaguely misanthropic Willy Wonka who leads the young winners of his golden wrapper co...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
From sexual harassment, to surveilling regulators, to Uber drivers and taxi drivers committing suicide (because they can't make a living) the pervasive creepine...
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James Messeder
| 2月 08, 2019
When cities put on a press event to announce they are welcoming a company to town to test autonomous vehicles within the city limits the news is greeted with po...
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