The Dispatcher Newsletter

Michael L. Sena works for his clients to bring clarity to the often opaque and complex issues of vehicle telematics. He has not just studied the technologies and analyzed the services. He has developed and implemented them. He has shaped visions and followed through to delivering them.

The Dispatcher newsletter touches on the principal themes of the industry, highlighting what is happening and, even more importantly, how and why. Explaining and understanding the implications for your businesses and working with you to develop your own strategies, are what we do together.

The Dispatcher’s Manifesto

Transport cannot be viewed in isolation. Traffic congestion is not caused by cars. It is an effect of policy decisions about where people live, work, shop and recreate. Most people live where they can afford to live and work where they get a job; everything else follows. The numbers and types of cars and trucks that are sold are the results of political and business decisions that are made locally, nationally and globally. Most people don’t buy cars and trucks to just drive around. They buy them to take them where they need to go and to make their lives easier to live. Changes to the transport network that affect driving and owning cars and trucks motivated by environmental considerations should only be made after full consideration is given to all potential societal impacts and after evaluating all alternatives, including possible future technological breakthroughs, like hyperloops, hydrogen fuel cells and CO₂ capture. If actions we take make life for humans not worth living, then what’s the point?

Contact me at ml.sena@mlscab.se with comments or thoughts on the material covered in The Dispatcher.

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This is the first issue of The Dispatcher.

Report from Telematics Update in Munich
Call center services – What are the benefits
What car companies are doing in telematics
Insurance telematics
V2V and V2I
Split billing using a single SIM
Big data
What happens next

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Report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
What to expect in 2014
Trends affecting the automotive business
Autonomous driving: Quo vadis? Where are we headed with self-driving cars.
Third Party eCall Services (TPS)

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Report from Telematics Fleet and Asset Management Conference in Amsterdam
The Chauffeured Generation
Specific solutions versus guidelines: Why standards groups and legislators should avoid pushing solutions on the automotive industry and offer guidelines instead
More paint: What governments need to do to speed up autonomous driving
European eCall law passed

The Dispatcher_17 June 2014_V2

Report from ITS Europe 2014 held in Helsinki, Finland
Future of Call Centers
Automotive Eco-systems
Cloud computing
Personal Periscope – Why a more direct and personal approach to traffic information delivery is superior to the indirect methods that we have today
Google shows its true colours
Is the Connected Car too complex

The Dispatcher_17 September 2014_V2

Testing self-driving cars
The cybersecurity dilemma
One (St)app too far
Apple-Android-Genivi
CEOs on electric cars
Invest in infrastructure

The Dispatcher_21 November 2014_V2

Telematics Update Munich 2015
Standardization
Next Phase for Maps
Mobility Wishes
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