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  • Could Trump Slump Give Mobility a Bump?

    by 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 ... ...
  • Navya: Where's the Remote?

    by 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... ...
  • OnStar Rolls Back Free Trials

    by 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... ...
  • HipRide: How Big is Your Bus?

    by 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... ...
  • Uber's Weakness; Tesla's Strength

    by 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... ...
  • Tesla: The Day the Auto Industry Stood Still

    by 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... ...
  • Which Way is Up for Uber, Lyft?

    by 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... ...
  • Lyft IPO & Auto Industry Annihilation

    by 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. Like... ...
  • Lyft IPO Paints Perilous Profitless Picture

    by 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... ...
  • Stemming Mobility's Race to the Bottom

    by 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... ...
  • London Taxis: Rancor in the Ranks

    by 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... ...
  • Car Sharing Prophets and Losses

    by 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... ...
  • Ford Seeks Own Path to Car Sharing, IoT

    by Roger Lanctot | 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: ... ...
  • Automobility: The Bot in a Box Boom

    by Roger Lanctot | 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... ...
  • BMW: From DriveOwn to DriveNow

    by Roger Lanctot | 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... ...
  • Uber: We Don't Know What We Don't Know

    by Roger Lanctot | 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... ...
  • Uber Nicht Über Alles

    by Roger Lanctot | 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... ...
  • Onerous Car Ownership?

    by Roger Lanctot | 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... ...
  • Movin' On: Transportation Trascendence

    by Roger Lanctot | 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.... ...
  • Uber's Winter of Discontent Turns Fatal

    by Roger Lanctot | 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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