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Roger Lanctot
| 4月 12, 2021
The global market for auto insurance is expected by some to surpass $1T in five years. The U.S. market alone already represents a $300B opportunity.
The ma...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 30, 2021
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
I hope Ben Franklin w...
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Edward Sanchez
| 3月 29, 2021
Connected cars have gone from the realm of conference PowerPoints a decade ago to reality, with an estimated 300+ million connected cars currently on the road ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 22, 2021
(NOTE: The author is participating this week in the four-day Future Networked Car event put on by the International Telecommunications Union. Details here:...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 17, 2021
In his parting screed describing his seven years under the wing of Google, post its $966M acquisition of Waze, former CEO Noam Bardin takes the company and his ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 17, 2021
It’s amusing to listen to Volkswagen and General Motors posturing over their multi-billion-dollar plans to launch massive EV product line-ups in order to ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 10, 2021
Prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic car makers were inching toward putting their 5G connectivity plans into action. There was a growing recognit...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 24, 2021
Carmera is a tiny location technology company having a giant impact. That impact has been amplified by the onset and persistence of COVID-19.
Carmera&rsquo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 24, 2021
It’s true. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, knows when you crash your Tesla. He just isn’t obliged, in the U.S., to do anything about it.&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 12, 2021
Two pileups in one day - one in Forth Worth, Texas, and one in Cobb County, Georgia. Enough is enough.
We're all familiar with multi-car pileup stories regardle...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 09, 2021
Gamestop isn’t the only source of wild stock market gyrations. In fact, one might argue that the crazy valuations gravy train got its start at a humb...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 01, 2021
Qualcomm took center stage in the automotive industry last week to state its intention to dominate future dashboard infotainment systems. Long known for ...
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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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