Vehicle Delivery and Recalled Vehicles – A New Heightened Awareness
When it comes to vehicle delivery, PARS checks for open safety recalls on every car entered into their system - and they offer a variety of options for recalled vehicles.
What Keeps Your Fleet Customers Up At Night?
By Chris Lyon, NTEA director of fleet relations
Have you ever had a problem at work follow you home after a long day?
Running a fleet can be a daunting task, with an inconceivable number of issues able to halt an entire operation. One concern that could be keeping your customers awake at night is money. Maintaining a positive cash flow is fundamental for any business. However, for fleet managers, a positive operating budget is a key metric for success.
Self-Driving Cars: Overlooking Data Privacy is a Car Crash Waiting to Happen
US states are scrambling to regulate self-driving cars, but the focus on physical safety ignores the more complex issues of data privacy and security
States across the US are scrambling to figure out how to regulate self-driving cars, wearable technologies that track our health, smart homes that constantly monitor their infrastructure and the rest of the devices emerging from the so-called “internet of things” (IoT). The result is a smattering of incomplete and inconsistent law that could depress the upside of the technology without really addressing its risks.
What’s most notable about these early regulatory attempts is not that they are varied – that is to be expected. It’s that the regulations deal mostly with physical safety, leaving privacy and cybersecurity issues almost wholly unexamined. This seems to be a pattern now, true too of drone regulation, where regulatory bodies have jurisdiction over physical threats, not informational ones.
Q&A: Mark Hayes — ‘Confidently Conquering Tomorrow’
The integration of Element Fleet and GE Capital Fleet Services has been a closely-watched endeavor in our industry. We interviewed Mark Hayes, Senior Vice President, Marketing at Element Fleet to find out how they have collaborated with their clients to make the integration of these two power house companies successful .
Mark says, “In early 2016 we embarked upon The Listening Tour and invited all of our clients to come and visit with us at half-day sessions in 16 different cities across North America. We hosted an exchange of information covering topics related to integration, our technology platform, and our mobile app development. And most importantly, we asked our clients questions and listened to their answers – What do you think? Does this make sense? Will this work? What would you do differently? How can we make your job easier?
And the great part about that collaboration is that our customers told us what we were doing well and they told us some things that we could improve upon, and we did"
2016 TU-Automotive Awards Winners Announced
TU-Automotive recently announced the winners of the 2016 TU-Automotive Awards, which is amongst the most coveted recognition in the connected car industry.
Thirty expert judges spent weeks analyzing and debating the applications in order to select the top in each category based on these four criteria: Innovation, Industry Engagement, User Experience and Market Update.
The 2016 TU-Automotive Awards winners are:
OEM of the year – Volvo Car Group & Ford Motor Company
Telematics Service Provider of the year – Wireless Car
Best Telematics Product/Service – Movimento for Movimento’s Over-The-Air platform
Best Insurance Telematics Product/Service – AXA Global Direct France for YouDrive
Best Active Safety or ADAS Product/Service – Volvo Car for Pilot Assist
Best Auto Mobility Product/Service – Veniam for Veniam
Best Auto Cybersecurity Product/Service – Security Innovation for Aerolink
Best Aftermarket Telematics Product/Service – MagellanGPS for Magellan eXplorist TRX7
Newcomer of the year – PolySync (previously Harbrick Technologies)
Influencer of the year – Julia Steyn, Vice President of Urban Mobility, General Motors
