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: Travel Technology

  • 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.

  • “The electric truck market is slower. You will see buses first. They hit on the sweet spots, such as short trips, and they have a centralized hub around which they drive. So they can be re-charged. Tesla is close to having its heavy truck and having lots of orders for them. If its track record…

  • How to bet on the mobility winners of the future, explored by Graham Jarvis. The automotive start-up scene, symbolised by Silicon Valley, is booming. Yet there is much talk about how you can spot the unicorn that will disrupt the mobility, connected and autonomous vehicle markets beyond recognition. “Historically, what Silicon Valley has done well…

  • Challenges for insurers devising policy plans for ADAS and autonomous explored by Graham Jarvis. By reputation the insurance industry is often seen as a slow-moving beast but research suggests that their pace is changing. It seems that insurers are keenly embracing new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and they are taking steps…

  • With the global market for digital mobility services forecast to grow to $2Trn by 2025, Frost and Sullivan suggests there is much continued private sector interest in digital mobility services and, as result of this trend, the firm says there is a readiness to combine different modes of transport to the extent that the “lines…

  • The way to get ahead of the game is not to necessarily have an always-on autonomous vehicle that is always connected but to have a means of allowing the vehicle to be self-reliant while allowing data and applications to be updated when a connection exists. With this approach the car when it is beyond the…

  • “We need data to understand who’s responsible in the event of an accident,” he replies. The second challenge in his opinion is related to the first one because with the development of autonomous driving there needs to be an evolution of the regulatory framework to answer the liability question. “In a number of countries most…

  • The opening day’s theme revolved around a drive to use the vehicle data, Graham Jarvis reports This year’s Connected Car Insurance Europe opened for the first day with topical discussions about the future of the insurance industry, the need to use telematics data as the stepping to stone to this goal, how telematics can be…

  • Fabien Roth, general manager from advanced infotainment marketing at Panasonic says: “Augmented reality will display an image at least 10 metres ahead of the car, meaning that the content will be integrated to make it natural to drive and to monitor information.” He adds that augmented reality will project images ahead of the car, and…

  • Autonomous liability creates a dual coverage, Graham Jarvis discovers. Traditional motor insurance makes the driver of the vehicle potentially liable for any damage or injury caused by an accident, whether that involves the policyholder or a third party. With autonomous vehicles it opens up many liability questions – particularly in the case when the car…