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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
"And the lights all went out in Massachusetts" - The Bee Gees "Massachusetts"
It may be no surprise that in the year of presidentially alleged voting fraud and ...
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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 24, 2020
Christmas 2020 is here and the forecasters of travel behavior and highway fatalities have reached into their bag and pulled out some tidings of woe – with...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 23, 2020
The Automotive News had a standout year in 2020 - thriving at a time when many publishers suffered. With factories and dealerships shuttered in the spring ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 30, 2020
“Ads definitely work, but we can’t tell you how or why or give you any evidence,” – Tim Hwang, research fellow, Georgetown Center f...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 24, 2020
Word arrived last week that General Motors was returning to the car insurance business, after a decade-long sojourn post-bankruptcy, in the form of a tie up wit...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 16, 2020
General Motors President Mark Reuss told Reuters last week that he is worried about the COVID-19 pandemic currently running rampant in the U.S. and globally.&nb...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 02, 2020
The news arrived a couple weeks ago of a pilot project whereby six U.S. state-level departments of transportation (DOTs) would leverage anonymized vehicle data ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 10月 27, 2020
Automotive innovations have the greatest impact when they create what can only be described as magical experiences. The most magical experience of all is the ca...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 28, 2020
There are two killer apps in the connected car: Traffic and First Notice of Loss. Accurate traffic predictions are essential to routing. First no...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 28, 2020
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
-- Robert Burns, "To a louse"
I live in a COVID-19 ghetto. Due to the recent blunder I ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 24, 2020
Vehicle-to-everything communications will save lives and improve vehicular transportation, but not before multiple barriers to adoption are overcome. This...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 22, 2020
Four years ago, this month, McKinsey published a report - "Monetizing Car Data" - which continues to simultaneously haunt and mock the automotive industry. The ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 09, 2020
At an industry event last year in Japan a senior General Motors executive in charge of electrification took the stage and commenced his talk by putting a pictur...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 07, 2020
We tend to think of driving as an individualistic and escapist pursuit. Whether it’s a trip to the grocery for a gallon of milk or a roadtrip to vi...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 07, 2020
Rare is the auto maker today that views connectivity as an option when designing a car. Connectivity is essential even if it is not yet universally availab...
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Angelos Lakrintis
| 9月 01, 2020
Polestar, a sports car joint venture between Volvo Car Group and its parent company Geely, hosted a test drive event at Farnborough airport in the UK and Strate...
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Roger Lanctot
| 6月 07, 2020
Casual observers of the automobile industry are quick to compare connected cars to "smartphones on wheels." It's a simple way of looking at things that makes so...
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