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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 20, 2019
In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, four researchers using ride data provided by Uber determined that for every dollar spent by Ub...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 31, 2019
In his book “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” Peter Norton describes the onset of motor vehicles in the first tw...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 16, 2019
Car2Go had 75 of its vehicles stolen in a single day in Chicago earlier this year, later recovering most of the vehicles – though many had been stripped...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 15, 2019
Reports from Reuters last week suggested that the European Union member states "should brace for U.S. tariffs on several fronts in the coming months," based on ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 12, 2019
When a commercial truck struck a Navya autonomous shuttle in Las Vegas on November 8, 2017, it set off a torrent of headlines around the world. Now, the Nationa...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 08, 2019
The GM Authority newsletter reports that General Motors has “drastically” reduced the complimentary trial period of all OnStar services to a singl...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 04, 2019
Uri Levine, one of the founders of Waze and a serial entrepreneur who now resides on map maker HERE's board of directors, is something of a transportation visio...
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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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