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If you’re feeling connected car sick maybe a dose of Admirals will help
Vodafone’s telematics are helping car insurer Admiral to evaluate each driver’s risk factor. Great idea, but could telematics go further to protect us? The new Admiral LittleBox is the vehicle to take us to a new age of Usage Based Insurance (UBI), they say.Read More
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GDPR could spell fines for fleet management
GDPR establishes strict requirements for the way that personal data must be governed and protected. These requirements must be met for every citizen of the European Union (EU), says freelance technology writer Antony Savvas, regardless of the geographic location of the company holding this information.Read More
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Dear car makers, we need to talk to about our relationship
I learned exactly how passionate people are for their cars when I worked in comms for the Met Police, says Nick Booth. Some drivers would issue death threats over the phone just because plod moved their Mini when it was blocking Piccadilly Circus. Mind you, the male callers could be just as bad.Read More
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Driverless vehicles really are a matter of life or death
Failing or poorly performing technology is nothing new. Here, Antony Savvas considers the fallout for fleet management as a result of the recent autonomous Uber vehicle fatality in the US. The technology industry and the hype that surrounds it is probably not matched by any other industry.Read More
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How data refinery synchronises better performance from the vast machinery of Transport for London
You can’t have market efficiency without perfect information, says the Pareto Optimum Principle. The rules for the dynamics of moving bodies were established back in the 1900s. How will open data affect the liquidity of transport assets though? Read More
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Your next journey is data integration but where do you board? It doesn’t say
There is always a massive disparity between the technology industry’s version of events and those we experience, says freelance writer Nick Booth. It’s time for us to mind the data gap, according to Johan Herrlin, CEO of Ito, a company which is ‘making a go’ (as its latin name implies) of data integration.Read More
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‘The next pod leaving Didcot Parkway Station…’
The government has confirmed the UK’s first trials of autonomous vehicles on public roads will take place around a “high-tech business and science hub” [otherwise known as an industrial estate] in Oxfordshire. Antony Savvas looks at the potential consequences.Read More
