Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Automotive

  • Ptolemus Consulting’s December 2019 email newsletter says fleet insurance telematics premiums will reach $22Bn globally, by 2030. It reports that it has seen “rapid growth of connected fleet solutions in commercial vehicles and company cars: from 37 million in 2016 to 64.1 million in 2019”. It also finds that connected fleet UBI policies will reach…

  • Graham Jarvis examines the hurdles faced by #driverless #technology for TU #Automotive. Published by TU Automotive on 20th December 2019. Author: Graham Jarvis. Client: TU Automotive. 

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of WAN data acceleration company Bridgeworks, offers some supporting comments: “The one thing that companies overlook when considering the Cloud is the latency between the data point and the Cloud. This can have a dramatic effect on the performance of the connection. For those time critical operations, it is better…

  • With a suite of sensors, it’s possible to gather all of the types of information required to keep connected and autonomous vehicles safe on the road. While the data is collated from radar, LiDAR and cameras, the information gleaned from them has to become fused to create a complete and comprehensive view of the world…

  • “Insurance is a hard business to be in and while car manufacturers may play a role in delivering the insurance services of the future, we see this working as a partnership arrangement with the insurance sector.” – Graham Gordon, director, global telematics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

  • “Mobility is being driven by four business models and technology trends. You have autonomy, connectivity, electrification and sharing that are disrupting business models of mobility service providers and it is changing the automotive technology base. Connectivity is enabling infrastructure and people to be smarter through optimization. Over time it will change the economics of the…

  • Mike Fisher, associate director of Futuresource, comments that the current evolution of connected vehicles towards becoming in-car companions has led to a rapid rise in safety features. He also finds that the biggest area of interest at the moment is in artificial intelligence (AI) vehicle solutions – coupled with edge-based processing, and the ongoing development…

  • “Existing transportation systems are struggling to keep up with current, and future, travel demands owing to rapid urbanization and population growth,” said Simon Dixon, global transportation leader at Deloitte. He explains that there a several ways in which mobility is already evolving to meet demand and they include rapid advances connected, autonomous and electric vehicles.”

  • David Hynd, chief scientist for the CAV area within TRL, remarks about what is significant about the new code of practice: “The first point is that most people are talking about automated vehicles. People are starting to settle on this term. There is some reasoning behind this definition in that they felt that autonomous implied…

  • Weather updates are going to be crucial to allow autonomous vehicles to adjust to changing road conditions in the same way that a human driver should adjust their speed during heavy rainfall or snowfall.