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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 25, 2020
By now it is pretty clear that everywhere outside of China and South Korea human beings are doing a lousy job of "social distancing," locking down, and shelteri...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 24, 2020
Car companies, start-ups, and investors across the globe have embraced and spread the virus of autonomous vehicle technology. The infection got its start ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 20, 2020
As the world wrestles with the consequences of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, running wild laying waste to health care systems, communities, and economies, it i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 19, 2020
The hideous reality of the coronavirus has exposed the hideous realities of the mobility industry with sobering implications for all. At its core, mobility...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 13, 2020
Financial analysts were thrilled with Uber's latest earnings report in spite of ongoing loss-making activity and legal woes. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's enthus...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 05, 2020
“It is kind of crazy that the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia when the Hillary campaign wasn’t even in contact with Michigan. It’s a...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 30, 2020
In a rare and perhaps unfortunate moment of candor, Cruise Automation CEO Dan Ammann wrote, in his blog post describing the emergence of Cruise (a subsidia...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 26, 2020
On this Saturday, with the defense of the President of the United States getting underway in the U.S. Senate, it is worth considering the case for General Motor...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 23, 2020
As I planned my travel to attend MobilityTalks in Washingdon, DC, yesterday I considered my options:
Drive to the Metro and park my car there - I am not su...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 22, 2020
We don't know when it might launch. We don't know how much it might cost. We don't know precisely where it will operate - though downtown San Francisco is a goo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 20, 2020
Car companies are interesting creatures in a corporate world increasingly dominated by Internet-centric behemoths from Silicon Valley, Seattle, and China. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 15, 2020
There is a temptation to blame U.S. President Donald J. Trump for everything that is right or for everything that is wrong in the world today. Either that ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 08, 2020
Three transportation-related events occurred in the first week of January 2020, coincident with the opening of the CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 27, 2019
These days it seems as if attending mobility events is more popular than mobility itself. Every week brings news of a mobility service provider retrenching...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 20, 2019
“I’ve always wanted to say this: The experts are terrible.” – candidate Donald J. Trump speaking at a Wisconsin rally in 2016 as quote...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 19, 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, ShareNow (formerly know in the U.S. and elsewhere as Car2Go) announced its plans to exit the North American (and other) markets. The l...
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Roger Lanctot
| 10月 03, 2019
On October 2nd in front of an audience of journalists, reporters and industry analysts, Ford Mobility and the city of Ann Arbor showcased some of their ong...
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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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