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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 24, 2021
For taxi and ride hailing operators to thrive in our post-pandemic world will require the widespread adoption of in-vehicle partitions. The problem lies i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 12, 2021
“I do think that I'm worried about one thing going into the second half of the year is, are we going to have enough drivers to meet the demand that we're ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 09, 2021
Lyft will report its latest quarterly results after the close of markets today. Uber will report Wednesday. Uber is expected to report a 12% decline i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 25, 2021
Florida is cracking down on vaccine tourism. Connecticut is struggling with online scheduling of senior citizen vaccinations. Dollar General, Aldi, an...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated public transportation of every variety from buses and taxis to airplanes and trains. The combination of remote work and evo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 20, 2021
A study published in ScienceAdvances has shown computer simulations of the movement of virus-laden airborne droplets in cars. The objective of the study appears...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 20, 2021
General Motors CEO Mary Barra kicked off the annual Consumer Electronics Show this week touting GM’s virtual “Exhibit Zero” to describe the ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 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...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 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 ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 06, 2021
A new year finds the transportation industry facing new priorities and new metrics to measure success. “Mobility” changed the focus of transpor...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 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...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 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 ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 14, 2020
Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has put the word out to individual states in the U.S. seeking prioritization for Uber drivers, who he characterizes appropriately a...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 14, 2020
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic back in the spring of 2020, the outlook for mobility services suddenly turned bleak. Micromobility operators shut down com...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 07, 2020
As the death toll in the U.S. from COVID-19 approaches 300,000 I am impressed by the resilience of pandemic doubters and deniers. I’m talking about t...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 16, 2020
The outlook for DoorDash’s highly anticipated public offering announced last week is inextricably bound up in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 12, 2020
Of all of the voluminous reporting on the mobility sector generally and ride hailing in particular most shocking is the lack of coverage of driver and passenger...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 09, 2020
The only thing worse than California voters passing Proposition 22 – a measure to enable all app-based drivers to be considered independent contractors ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 10月 27, 2020
While millions of workers around the world have lost their jobs and thousands of companies have disappeared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of t...
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Roger Lanctot
| 10月 27, 2020
Attendees at CES 2020 might have been stunned to see the S-A1 Urban Air Vehicle dominating the Hyundai booth in the North Hall - perhaps even raising questions ...
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