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Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released revised driver distraction guidelines. This long overdue revision came after the automotive industry raised serious questions and concerns regarding specific guidelines which at times seemed arbitrary and counterpro... read more

At Huawei's analyst summit in Shenzhen China, the Huawei team renewed its commitment to the connected car market. Following the announcement of its 3G and LTE communication modules - MU609T and ME909T - at MWC in Barcelona in February 2013, Mr Yang Yong - Vice President of Huawei's Mobile Broadba... read more

Pioneering UBI provider Progressive has changed up its messaging around the Snapshot usage-based insurance offering with a new ad campaign in the U.S. built upon the concept of Rate Suckers. The campaign shifts the UBI angle from being a simple means to achieving a discount, to an aspirational mo... read more

Usage-based insurance is a consumer deception. It is a shell game being foisted on consumers to lure them into allowing their car insurance company to glance over their shoulder as they drive and determine their insurance rate based on direct observation of their driving behavior. UBI prog... read more

Threat to Charging Infrastructures – Emergence of New Super-Efficient, Conventionally-Powered Compact Models The global banking crisis of 2008/9 resulted in many governments transferring debt from the banking sector to the private sector. This has resulted in widespread... read more

At a time when governments around the world are raising gas taxes to discourage driving and fund the maintenance and expansion of transportation infr... read more

Telematics systems can do a lot of things these days, but one thing they cannot do is see to it that family members of unconscious crash victims are contacted in a timely manner after a crash.  Car makers are fond of touting Twitter and Facebook integrations in the car, but nearly two decade... read more

Returning to Brazil for the first time in a few months I was struck at the paucity of technology in the taxi cabs. Having recently been at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas I was accustomed to everything from smartphones and GPS devices to cameras, sensors, backseat advertising displays,... read more

I have frequently expressed skepticism regarding the mass market potential of usage-based insurance and nothing about my experience with State Farm's D... read more

When visiting Shanghai a couple months ago I was struck by the fact that multiple auto dealers visited during my stay did not have cars available with activated telematics systems.  <... read more

Tweddle set out more than five years ago to shift its printed manual business into the digital world.  Tha... read more

Best Buy is kicking its Commercial Division automotive aftermarket efforts into overdrive in 2013 with plans to more than double the number of major me... read more

“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.” – Margot Channing as played by Better Davis in “All about Eve” It is the evening before my test drive of Tesla’s new Model S, the $100,000 sedan intended to change everyone’s thinking a... read more

Car maker emphasis on mandated modernization, standardization or expansion across dealership bodies has almost no proven investment return justification, according to the National Automotive Deal... read more

“Gentlemen… We have the technology…” paraphrasing Richard Anderson in character as Oscar Goldman in the opening sequence of “The Six Million Dollar Man.” In the U.S., three times as many people are killed in accidents that occ... read more

“Most maps, including Google Maps, have not yet mapped the area.” – The Huffingtonpost (Sept. 2012) describing the Angelika Film Center in the Mosaic District of Merrifield, Va. Can automakers, dealers, Tier One suppliers, and automotive app developers afford to continue ... read more

2012 will be remembered as the year of usage-based insurance. But in retrospect it is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Is usage-based insurance the silver bullet to simultaneously reduce traffic congestion, carbon emissions and highway fatalities? The ultimate objective of UBI p... read more

Just picked up my wife's Toyota Sienna from the local Toyota dealer where I bought the car and heard a familiar tale of woe.  Seems a customer had a bad accident and took his vehicle to an independent repair shop as per direction from his insurance company.  The independent shop patched... read more

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its 2013 “Most Wanted List” of solutions for transportation hazards including everything from enhanced pipeline safety to improved safety for airport surface operations. Near the bottom of the list were three items relevant... read more

Why is Pohanka telling customers to come on in for service without an appointment? The first ads I noticed were for Chevrolet, but it soon became clear that Pohanka was making the same offer for all of the brands in its Portfolio including Honda, Toyota, Lexus and Acura. (The offer for Chevrolet ... read more

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