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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Mobility As A Service: The Possible Answer For The High Cost Gas, Commute Or Road Trip
The all-time record for average inflation-adjusted gasoline prices in the United States dates back to June, 2008, at $5.38 per gallon, but the current prices are nudging ever closer to that dubious honor at an average of $5.19 last week (per GlobalPetrolPrices.com). All around the world, prices are ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
The Go-To-Market Strategy For Autonomous Vehicles: “Launch Somewhere”
Autonomy is complex. Much more complicated than originally thought. Several manufacturers expected the first self-driving cars to hit the market 3-4 years ago. In fact, Johann Jungwirth of Volkswagen met with Focus Magazine in April of 2016 amongst beanbags, blue suede shoes and skateboards to repor...
Friday, June 17, 2022
Auto Cybersecurity Companies’ Challenge Is Now Proving Its Mousetrap Is Better
Oddly seven years after his death (in 1889), Ralph Waldo Emerson was attributed with an even more succinct quote* than his original statement: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” (*his original, long-winded quote talked about corn, pigs, knives and a "broad, hard-...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The Best Investment Right Now Might Actually Be Used Cars Or Trucks
In an economy riddled with inflation, and investor looks for where to put his/her investments so as to outperform the standard return on investment (ROI). As NerdWallet reported back in March, , but it ironically has dropped by an average of 10% since that article was published. Typically, short-ter...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The Auto Industry Struggles with Systems Engineering; Reinventing the Wheel
In 2013, Forbes reported that "developing a new car can cost as high as $6 billion," but that estimate pre-dated the explosion of software from ten million (10M) lines of code in a 2011 Chevy Volt to an estimated billion (1B) lines of code in an autonomous vehicle. It also predated post-Covid inflat...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Privacy Battle Over Connected Cars Takes An Interesting Turn In California
So goes California, and so typically goes the country, and the North American automotive industry along with it.