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: Web/Tech

  • Thatcham Research and Zenzic are developing a consumer safety rating, which they hope will be adopted by Euro NCAP. The organizations have worked on safety testing for 25 years. During this period the focus was on passive and active safety. The latter was introduced a decade ago to examine the potential for radar and camera-based…

  • The automotive industry is increasingly becoming an information industry. Vehicle manufacturers need to be able to derive and use data to improve their business operations and enhance customer experience. At Automotive Techweek delegates and speakers explored the growing focus on connected vehicle data, how to use data to integrate it with the broader automotive V2X…

  • What are the options for speeding WAN and storage? With Christmas just around the corner, Santa is reviewing his IT budget for the festive season and for the year ahead. Much has had to change over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, with many of his elves having to work from home. He’s also had…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic created a seismic shift in shopping habits in favour of e-commerce and m-commerce – buying retail goods and services online to the tune of more than $4.9 trillion USD worldwide. Daniela Coppola writes in her ‘E-commerce worldwide – statistics & facts’ report for Statista of 23rd February 2022 that e-commerce has therefore…

  • At the end of September 2021 media reports in the UK suggested that there was a shortage of drivers to deliver diesel and fuel to service stations gas stations. The fuel crisis that impacted the UK for almost a month and which, according to the Petrol Retailers Association, saw nearly 5,500 independent petrol outlets run…

  • Elon Musk recently announced Tesla’s intent to launch a usage-based insurance (UBI) product in Texas. The move came after General Motors and Ford launched their own telematics insurance programs and so Ptolemus Consulting Group predicts that move towards embedded connectivity is impacting insurance to the extent that it is going to shake up auto insurance.…

  • With an increasing number of parents seeing smartphones as a distraction in schools – particularly in the classroom, questions are arising about whether they should be completely banned, or whether they can actually be managed in such a way that they can benefit children and their education. Despite the temptation to use personal mobiles devices…

  • A new tool has been developed called RoadSafe designed to alert fleet drivers to high-risk highways. The tool, created by a UK government-backed consortium that’s co-funded by Innovate UK, involved a 20-month project by organizations including Ford, Loughborough University, Oxfordshire County Council, and AI sensor specialists Vivacity Labs. It also has the support of Transport…

  • Joseph Salem, who’s also a partner at the firm, writes in the foreword of the company’s Autonomous Mobility Journal, Edition III for September 2021: “We live in unfortunate times where the transportation industry worldwide continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chains across the automotive industry have been disturbed… amid the challenges,…

  • With the march towards decarbonization, Automotive Tech Week Europe asked in September as part of a fireside chat, whether governments and industry are ‘Barking up the Wrong Tree’. As part of its own drive to decarbonization, the UK has set a 2030 deadline for the ban of all new gasoline and diesel cars. Yet electric…