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USDOT sketches road rules ahead for self-driving vehicles (Episode 74)
Finch Fulton, U.S. deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy, and NHTSA general counsel Jonathan Morrison discuss the federal government’s…
5 years, 8 months ago
Why did Aurora acquire Uber ATG? Chris Urmson explains (Episode 73)
Aurora CEO Chris Urmson delves into details on the engineering ‘horsepower’ provided by the groundbreaking acquisition, why he favors a trucking-firs…
5 years, 8 months ago
Refraction AI’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson reflects on surging delivery demand (Episode 72)
In Part 1 of our Mobility at a Crossroads series, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, co-founder and chief technology officer of Refraction, discusses the pand…
5 years, 8 months ago
SAFE’s Robbie Diamond sounds alarm on China’s leadership in transportation technology (Episode 71)
Robbie Diamond, CEO and founder of think tank Securing America’s Future Energy, discusses the intersection of transportation and energy policy, the s…
5 years, 9 months ago
Gautam Narang seeks self-driving success along the ‘middle mile’ (Episode 70)
Gautam Narang, co-founder and CEO of self-driving truck startup Gatik, details a new partnership with Canada’s largest grocery chain and lays out the…
5 years, 9 months ago
How safe is safe enough? RAND researcher Marjory Blumenthal finds no easy answer (Episode 69)
Marjory Blumenthal, senior policy researcher at RAND Corp., discusses her latest paper on automated vehicle safety, the idea of ‘roadmanship’ and how…
5 years, 9 months ago
Space: The Final Mobility Frontier (Episode 68)
For Michigan’s burgeoning aerospace industry, the sky isn’t the limit. It’s the starting point. Gavin Brown, executive director of the Michigan Aeros…
5 years, 9 months ago
Intel’s Jack Weast on how math can safeguard self-driving vehicles (Episode 67)
Jack Weast, senior principle engineer at Intel and vice president of automated vehicle standards at Mobileye, discusses driver-assist developments, i…
5 years, 9 months ago
Nauto’s Jennifer Haroon on the power of predictive collision alerts (Episode 66)
Jennifer Haroon, chief operating officer at artificial-intelligence startup Nauto, discusses how driver-monitoring technology can help improve human …
5 years, 10 months ago
Giovanni Circella on mobility's triple revolution (Episode 65)
Giovanni Circella, director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at UC Davis, discusses the institute’s studies of electrification, automatio…
5 years, 10 months ago