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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 06, 2012
OnStar announces its next global launch today as Mexico in 2013, validating Strategy Analytics' analysis when OnStar announced Telefonica as its partner for glo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 29, 2012
The automotive collision repair business in the U.S. grew 3.3% in 2011 to $38.7B, in spite of a decline in miles driven and the number of collisions, accordi...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 23, 2012
The news from General Motors, reported by the GMAuthority a week ago, was that 1,849 Volts were sold in July a 125% increase over the year ago period and a 100-...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 20, 2012
Sometimes a company does something so wrong-headed it is impossible to ignore. The normally very clever executives at Scosche - pioneers in automotive infotainm...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 29, 2012
Ten years into the current smartphone revolution some people and organizations still do not realize what is happening. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 28, 2012
The latest news from the world of peer-to-peer car sharing was the announcement of the formal launch of RelayRides’ cooperation with OnStar. The partnersh...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 16, 2012
Best Buy continues to report horrendous comparable store sales and negative financial results with no clear end in sight. The only two bright spots are mo...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 14, 2012
Yesterday evening, while driving home from meetings in the New York metropolitan area, I had an extraordinary traffic information experience which highlighted a...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 11, 2012
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
I am happy to report watching with great amusement the Siri television adver...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 05, 2012
Tuesday the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission and the Member States to make sure the eCall system will be installed in...
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Roger Lanctot
| 5月 06, 2012
Insurance Telematics London 2012 represents a unique opportunity, this week, to discuss in open forum the suddenly center stage issues related to establishing i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 20, 2012
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was busy last week hosting three public comment sessions across the country on its driver distraction guideli...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 28, 2012
William Ford – executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company – became the first automotive industry executive to deliver a keynote at Mobile World Co...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 22, 2012
I recently visited Silicon Valley for the Telecom Council’s Mobile Forum on the Connected Car. The event was fascinating, but it was the day following th...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 20, 2012
After failing in its frontal assault on automotive smartphone use last year, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has started 2012 wi...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 17, 2012
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Administration has presented new proposed guidelines intended to encourage automakers to mitigate driver distraction whe...
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Roger Lanctot
| 2月 16, 2012
Plagued by uninsured drivers and fraudulent whiplash claims representing as much as £2B, the government of the United Kingdom is considering implem...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 06, 2012
The very organizations that present themselves as most concerned with the welfare of the driving public are actually impairing the adoption of automotive safety...
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Roger Lanctot
| 1月 03, 2012
Predictive traffic is the single most important telematics application. This conclusion is borne out by the need for predictive modeling when creating navigati...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 31, 2011
Embedded telematics systems like OnStar ought to act as the car maker’s wingman, which is defined by Wikipedia as “a pilot who supports another in a...
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