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This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Wayve's OEM partnership with Nissan, Nuro's Series E capital raise and why the Uber/Waymo partnership in Austin does not guarantee future deployments. Wayve is going to power Nissan's next-generation ProPILOT technology starting in fiscal year 2027. The deal with Nissan validates Wayve's business model of licensing and raises the question of is Nuro next in line to secure a major OEM partnership? As the autonomy economy evolves, licensing autonomous driving systems is going to accelerate fragmentation, potentially benefitting both Uber and Lyft. In Austin, Waymo is available exclusively through Uber. While early signs point to success, it's far from guaranteed that the partnership will scale beyond Austin and Atlanta, especially as Waymo continues to expand on it's own with Waymo One.Episode Chapters0:00 Wayve Partners with Nissan 3:12 Autonomous Driving OEM Partnerships 5:24 Nuro Series E7:12 Autonomous Driving Partnerships Ecosystem 13:01 Could Tesla xAI Swap Assets?17:19 Zoox Expands Testing to LA18:27 Will Zoox Launch Commercial Service in 2025?20:25 Waymo Needs More OEM Partnerships 23:40 U.S. / China Policy 28:00 Europe / China Policy 31:19 Uber / Waymo Austin Data 36:49 Unforced Error of The Week38:52 Next WeekRecorded on Friday, April 11, 2025--------About The Road to AutonomyThe Road to Autonomy® is a leading source of data, insight and commentary on autonomous vehicles/trucks and the emerging autonomy economy™.Autonomy is transforming industries and creating an entirely new economy that we call the autonomy economy™. The Road to Autonomy provides advisory and market intelligence services that helps you better understand the market and stay ahead of what's coming next. To learn more, say hello (at) roadtoautonomy.com.Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/autonomy-economy/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Raechel and Ryan Lambert want to get people together. Human beings are wired to connect with one another in real life. However, as our lives become increasingly digital, we're also getting more lonely. And today's guests, two Silicon Valley standouts who now live on the Seacoast, are on a mission to address this urgent problem. Their solution? River, an app that brings like minded-people together. Think Meetup, but more efficient and user-friendly, and also less weird. From their apartment in the West End of Portsmouth, Raechel, Ryan, and I share their wild story with me. We discuss: How I met Raechel and Ryan (00:00) Raechel and Ryan's love story (03:30) The book that changed their lives (07:34) Living and working in Silicon Valley (10:22) Cultural differences between East Coast and West Coast (17:40) Becoming digital nomads after leaving SF (19:18) The podcast that planted the seed for River (23:15) Why like-minded people are desperate to get together (29:08) How Raechel organized podcast meetups across the world (33:11) Meeting the founder of Meetup (38:05) Working with Tim Ferriss (42:21) Moving to Portsmouth in 2023 (52:08) What is community? (54:28) What's your mission? (01:00:00) Raechel and Ryan Lambert are the co-founders of River, an in-person meeting and event platform that's designed to get like-minded people together. The two New England natives spent most of the 2010s living in San Francisco, where the two worked together at various Silicon Valley-based startups. After leaving San Francisco, the couple spent time in New York City, Miami, Portugal, and other destinations before deciding to make Portsmouth their home last summer. For more information on River, check out the app or visit their web site. This podcast is hosted, written, researched, and produced by Spotify's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Troy Farkas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FOLLOW the show on ⁠Apple⁠ or ⁠Spotify ⁠to support the show. It's free :) RELEVANT LINKS: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss The Tim Ferriss Show The All-In Podcast Who is Bryan Johnson? The Uber-Waymo drama

JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership. In our conversation, we discuss:• How to sharpen your vision and strategy skills• What “conscious leadership” means and how to practice it• Practical techniques for managing stress• The power of soft skills and emotional intelligence in product leadership• Lessons from working at Uber, Waymo, and DoorDash• Keys to living a successful and fulfilling life• Much more—Brought to you by:• Pendo—The only all-in-one product experience platform for any type of application• WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/becoming-a-conscious-leader-john-mark-nickels—Where to find John Mark Nickels:• X: https://x.com/nickelsjm• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmnickels/• Website: https://www.rhythmofbeing.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Introduction to JM(02:02) Conscious leadership explained(03:41) The power of soft skills(07:34) Navigating Uber's evolution(12:41) Embracing emotions and inner work(21:46) Crafting strategy and vision(41:16) Balancing vision and execution(46:13) Lessons from DoorDash, Uber, and Waymo(52:32) The future of autonomous ride-hailing(55:18) Contrarian corner: Embracing emotions in the workplace(59:47) Keys to a fulfilling life(01:04:45) Taking responsibility and agency(01:07:29) Lightning round and final thoughts—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

The Daily Business and Finance Show - Saturday, 14 September 2024 We get our business and finance news from Seeking Alpha and you should too! Subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium for more in-depth market news and help support this podcast. Free for 14-days! Please click here for more info: Subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium News Today's headlines: Boeing workers reject contract, set to strike at midnight Uber stock jumps on expanded robotaxi deal with Waymo S&P soars to best week of 2024 as Wall Street gears up for anticipated interest rate cuts Short sellers boost bets against energy stocks as prices fall AST SpaceMobile stock soars a day after BlueBird satellite launch; Scotiabank reaffirms rating Legacy automakers scramble to counter 'existential threat' from nimble Chinese EV makers AI PC demand might not live up to hype: New Street Research Disney, DirecTV end carriage fight, restoring channels like ESPN ahead of college football Natural gas likely will stay under pressure - WSJ's Heard On The Street Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast provides information only and should not be construed as financial or business advice. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk, discuss Wall Street's perspective on autonomy, the implications that autonomy could have on Uber and whether it'a s strength or weakness for Uber. Along with the impact of Tesla entering the robotaxi market and the growth of Waymo.Later in the conversation they explore topics such as the potential for autonomous vehicles to be marketed as a premium service, the challenges of integrating Chinese-made vehicles into U.S. markets, and the future of food delivery services.Episode Chapters0:00 Wall Street's Perspective on Autonomy3:33 Uber13:01 Autonomous Vehicle Insurance16:32 Autonomy as a Premium Service18:55 Waymo30:37 Uber Freight33:42 Delivery (Uber Eats & Instacart)38:46 Until Next WeekRecorded on September 5, 2024--------About The Road to AutonomyThe Road to Autonomy® is a leading source of data, insight and commentary on autonomous vehicles/trucks and the emerging autonomy economy™.Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/autonomy-economy/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

All the headlines from yesterday's Build conference. The big Netflix password crackdown has begun. Did Elon buy Twitter to dethrone Fox News? Is an Uber/Waymo partnership the start of a beautiful relationship? And is Final Cut Pro on the iPad actually what everyone wanted?Sponsors:Miro.com/podcastOregonState.eduLinks:Microsoft's Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI ‘copilots' (TechCrunch)Microsoft's Copilot and Bing AI plug-ins will be interoperable with ChatGPT (The Verge)Netflix's password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month (The Verge)Elon Musk's right-wing media venture scores another big win (WashingtonPost)Uber teams up with Waymo to add robotaxis to its app (The Verge)PSVR2's early sales beat the original, Sony claims (VideoGamesChronicle)That podcast ad you're listening to may soon be AI. Spotify is reportedly developing bots to mimic your favorite hosts. (Insider)Final Cut Pro for the iPad is slick but limited (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the Courtside Financial Podcast! In this episode, host Obi covers a wide range of topics impacting the business and technology landscape. From Elon Musk's demanding schedule across SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter to groundbreaking collaborations between Uber and Waymo in the robotaxi and delivery services sector. The crackdown on password sharing by Netflix, Ron DeSantis launching his presidential bid with the support of Elon Musk, and Apple's multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom for US-made chips.The episode also features an in-depth analysis of NIO's recent investor conference, where insights into the company's growth strategy, risk management approach, and aggressive investments in smart cockpits, battery technology, energy transition, semiconductors, and automotive ecology are discussed.Additionally, the NEV insurance registrations in China, including NIO's numbers, are examined alongside competitors such as Li Auto, Denza, Zeekr, Neta, Shenlan, AITO, and Rising Auto.Join us as we explore the dynamic world of business and technology, featuring expert analysis and commentary on the latest trends and developments. Stay informed and stay ahead with the Courtside Financial Podcast. Free stocks from WeBull: https://www.webull.com/activity?inviteCode=fBYRrgxBolWr&inviteSource=wb_inf&source=CourtsideFinancial Join the free discord : https://discord.gg/neABZcGQ Tags: Courtside Financial Podcast, business and technology, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, Uber, Waymo, robotaxi, delivery services, Netflix, password sharing crackdown, Ron DeSantis, presidential bid, Apple, Broadcom, US-made chips, NIO, investor conference, NEV insurance registrations, Li Auto, Denza, Zeekr, Neta, Shenlan, AITO, Rising Auto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courtsidefinancial/support

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. Each week, I'll sit down with an author or a writer behind one of the stories covered in a previous weekday edition for a casual conversation about what they wrote.This week, I spoke to Alex Davies, the author of the brand new book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. It's just out as of last week and is an enthralling read about the events that led us to the present-day state of the art of autonomous vehicles.I've been looking forward to this book since it was announced, and it doesn't disappoint: from the iconic if shambolic 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge to the legal battles that threatened to tear the industry apart, the creation of this tech could change the world. It's a great story.For the first time, I recorded one of these to be podcast-quality so you can actually listen to the interview up top. Let me know if you enjoy that, and maybe I'll do more of them!The book is Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car and can be found wherever books are sold, and Alex is on Twitter at @adavies47. This interview has been condensed and edited. Unless otherwise indicated, images are from DARPA. Podcast theme by J.T. Fales.Alex, you are the author of the brand new book, Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. You cover all about transportation, you cover all about vehicles and you've also covered a lot about the technology that goes into them. There's been a lot of talk about driverless cars recently, you were talking about how this is a really long journey. How far back have we been working on driverless cars?I think the people first started talking about the driverless car right around the time people came up with the car itself. The car was a great invention for all sorts of reasons but one thing people noticed very quickly was that when you got rid of the horse, you got rid of the sentient being that would stop you from driving off a cliff or into a wall if you, the human driver, stopped paying attention. You see these stories from the ‘20s and ‘30s of people coming up with ways of remote-controlling cars using radio waves. And in the ‘50s, you start seeing programs from General Motors and RCA working on embedding electric strips into the road, which obviously didn't work for various reasons, that would help guide a car along the highway. You see examples from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs in New York where GM is talking about, "oh, cars that will drive themselves and you'll have these things like air traffic controllers saying, okay, your car is clear to go into self-driving mode," or back then they would have used the word autonomous.Ford Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair, via Library of CongressSo, the idea itself is really old but technologically, I think you've got to date this work from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. That's when you first start seeing the technology that undergirds the way we think about building self-driving cars today, which is not by following any kind of radio path, nothing built into the infrastructure and the system, but the basic idea of giving the car the tools it needs to drive itself the way a human operates a car. You've got three basic buckets: one is you have to recreate a human's senses, so that's where you see things like cameras, radars, LiDAR sensors, giving the car the ability to see the world around it. You have to replace what a human's arms and legs do or hands and feet, really, and those are just kind of servo motors built into the car that give the car the ability to turn the steering wheel or pump the gas and brakes. And, actually, in today's cars, that's all done purely over software, it's not even really mechanical in there anymore. And then the last, the really tricky thing is how do you replace the human's brain? The step between the senses and actually carrying out the decisions you need to make.I start my story with the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge. I give a little bit of the history of the robotics and artificial intelligence research that happened before it. But for me, the Grand Challenge is really the starting point. DARPA is that really kooky arm of the Pentagon that is basically charged with making sure the U.S. government is never surprised on the technological front. It came out of the Soviets launching Sputnik, which really shocked the Americans to hell, and they're like, “okay, we need an arm of the military that's just going to do the kooky kind of far out stuff.” So DARPA, a lot of big hits — the internet, GPS, stealth bombers. Some not so great moments — DARPA was instrumental to the creation of Agent Orange. Whoops.Oops, yeah no, don't want to do that one.That one, not so nice.Look, they're not all hits, they're not all hits and that's okay. We are friends, we have been friends for a while now. I feel like you have told me the story of the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge many times, as this deeply formative event, not only for self-driving cars but also robotics and Silicon Valley and how government can work together on different things. Do you want to go into what went into creating this event and kind of what happened at it? Which I feel like is a very, very cool story that I imagine is a solid chunk of the book.It is a solid chunk of the book. It's also, personally, my favorite part of the book. To me, this is really the heart of the story. DARPA was tasked with helping the U.S. military develop autonomous vehicles and the basic thinking there was that vehicles were a way a lot of soldiers got hurt, especially in the early 2000s, as we were starting to get mired down in these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We wanted autonomous vehicles so soldiers didn't have to be in vehicles that were being hit by IEDs, so you could send cars by themselves on convoys and dangerous missions, and basically, it was to save the lives of the troops. DARPA had been funding all sorts of research into autonomous driving for decades by this point and the guy running it, DARPA director Tony Tether, was frustrated that he just wasn't seeing the kind of progress he wanted to see, it just felt like one internal research project after another.So, he said, “do you know what?” DARPA had, at the time, a relatively new power to give out prize money and he could give out up to a million dollars without needing congressional approval. So, he created a thing called the DARPA Grand Challenge with a $1 million first prize. It was a race for autonomous vehicles across the Mojave Desert in California. You would go from this real dusty little town called Barstow in the California Mojave Desert to just across the line to Primm, Nevada, which is a pretty sad town because it's the least driving you have to do from California to legally gamble in a casino. If you're like, “I don't have the energy to drive the extra 45 minutes to Las Vegas,” you go to Primm.Oh no.And so, Tether's original idea, very briefly, it was we're going to have the cars go from Los Angeles to the Las Vegas Strip and they'll go on the freeway. And the guy at DARPA who was actually in charge of putting on this race was like that is completely insane, you can't do any of that. These robots don't work, we don't even know what they're going to look like. So, they ended up doing it in the desert, which made more sense for the military application anyway when you think about what your driving in the Middle East would be like. But the key part of the challenge was that it was open to anybody, this was not just Lockheed Martin and Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University, the big contractors who had been doing this kind of work. Tony Tether just said, “anybody who can build a self-driving car, we'll bring them all to the desert and we'll do this big race.” And so, you see this wide range of characters who come into this.I think, foremost among them, interestingly, is Anthony Levandowski, who at the time is just about 23 years old. He's an graduate student at UC Berkeley and he decides he really wants to be in this because he loves robotics, even though he doesn't have a ton of robotics training. He's like, “I'm going to build a self-driving motorcycle.” So, that's his idea. You've got the big players like Carnegie Mellon and that's where Chris Urmson, who becomes Anthony Levandowski's great rival once they're both at Google years later, comes in. Chris Urmson is a big player, Carnegie Mellon is the robotics powerhouse in the world, probably the best roboticists in the world and have been doing tons and tons of self-driving research over the decades. They field this team as a powerhouse of a team and you've got this guy, Red Whittaker, who's the old roboticist there.This is amazing.I have been yelled at by Red Whittaker more times than I care to remember. Really!He's just very cantankerous, he's an ex Marine, he's now 70 years old, he's well over six feet, he's 250 pounds, the guy is built like a redwood and he's just always yelling. And he builds robots, someone pointed this out to me once, he builds robots that look like him, in a sense. They're always these enormous, hulking things and for the Grand Challenge, they built this Humvee. And Red Whittaker, someone told me, he has this penchant for saying really bombastic things that sound crazy and don't actually make any sense. So, he once told someone, this project, it's like a freight train, you've just got to grab on and it'll rip your arms off.It sounds terrible.When he told me this, it's like, what does that even mean? But he has this incredible talent for really developing young engineers. And Chris Urmson is among his many proteges who are now pushing this technology into the world.And so, you have this collection of wacky racers, gathering to win a million dollars from the Defense Department in the desert. And the first one is 2004, what happens at the first one?It is a disaster. The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge is supposed to be a 142 mile race through the desert, 15 teams get out of a qualifying round and make it to the final round. If you looked at the qualifying round, vehicles were smoking and shaking or they couldn't even start at all or they were just driving into every last thing. And then the race in the desert itself, wasn't all that much better. It got off to a great start, Carnegie Mellon's Humvee, Sand Storm, was first off the line, it shoots off into the desert. So, it's doing okay, the first couple of vehicles get off the line okay. And then you get through the bottom half of the field and it becomes a comedy of errors. You've got one little bathtub shaped thing that goes up onto the tiny ridge just on the side of the trail where it's raised and flips over and lands upside down.You've got one that drives 50 yards out, does an inexplicable U-turn and drives back to the starting line. We've got one, one just veers off-road into barbed wire and then can't find it's way back. You've got this thing from OshKosh that's a 14 ton military truck, a six wheeled thing, it's lime green and it's got a tumbleweed, like a bush thing in front of it. And its detection system says, this is an unmovable obstacle, but then another tumbleweed shows up behind it and so, it just starts going forward and backward and forward and backward like Austin Powers, trying to turn around. And then, even Carnegie Mellon's vehicle, which is doing well and is seven miles into the race, it's going around a hairpin turn, it goes off the edge of the road a little bit and it gets hung up on this rock. It gets, basically, stranded like a whale on a beach. It's raised up to the point where its wheels can't get any traction anymore. The robot brain doesn't know this and it's just spinning its wheels, spinning its wheels at full speed until the rubber is on fire and smoke pouring off this thing. And DARPA has to show up from a helicopter. They hop out of the helicopter with the fire extinguishers, and it's a complete disaster.And the thing that DARPA had really hyped up, they're like, “this is the new innovation, we're going to save the lives of all these troops.” And so then, reporters come after Tony Tether and he meets them, he meets the reporters who are waiting at the end line, at the finish line, which is roughly — it's 142 mile race — 130 miles away from the closest car. The Outcome.Carnegie Mellon did the best, it went 7.4 miles. Anthony Levandowski's motorcycle makes it into the final round, mostly as a stunt. It did horribly in qualifying, but the DARPA guys are like, “this thing is so crazy, it really embodies the spirit of what we're trying to do, so let's just bring it to the race anyway.” It's not like it can win, its gas tank doesn't hold enough gas for it to go all the way to the finish line.So, Anthony brings it up to the starting line, hands it off to a DARPA guy who kind of holds his hand on it until it goes, motorcycles starts going, he takes his hand off and motorcycle instantly falls to the ground. Anthony had forgotten to turn on the stabilizing software system before it started.That will get you.And so, one of his lessons for the next year was make a checklist.The cool thing about this is that it's an utter fiasco, it's how you always tell it. But then everybody who was there for this fiasco, they stuck around and they went, in many ways, to kind of form the current self-driving industry. Do you want to talk about that seed, what it has turned into since?Yeah. So, very quickly, what's great about the Grand Challenge is that it brings all these people together, and it pits them against this problem that everyone had kind of dismissed as impossible. So, what happens is DARPA does the 2005 Grand Challenge 18 months later, and the 18 months really prove to be the difference in that teams that weren't ready at all for the Grand Challenge, for the original one, are ready 18 months later. They've learned much more about how this works. And so, the 2005 race is a huge success. Stanford, led by Sebastian Thrun, comes in first place, Carnegie Mellon second, five teams finish this big race through the desert. Then DARPA follows it up with the 2007 Urban Challenge, which pits the vehicles against a little mock city, where they have people driving around and all of a sudden they have to deal with traffic and stop signs and parking lots and all of this stuff.What you really get from the Urban Challenge is the sense that this technology seems, suddenly, very possible. And by 2007, this is a big media event, it's hosted by the guys who did MythBusters and Larry Page is there, and he shows up in his private plane full of Google execs, and it's like, look at this future of technology. About a year later, Larry Page wants to build self-driving cars. This is actually something he'd looked at as an undergraduate or a graduate student and then his thesis advisor said, “well, how about you focus on internet search instead?” And it worked out pretty well.It worked out okay, I think, right?I think he did fine, that's what I thought. He decided I want to get back to self-driving cars. He'd been at the Urban Challenge and been like, “I can see how far this technology has come,” so what he did was he went to Sebastian Thrun, who had led Stanford's team through the challenges and he was already working at Google, he was a big part of making Street View happen. Along with Anthony Levandowski, who Thrun had met through the challenges and he's like, “oh, this guy's nuts but he's really talented and he's a real go-getter.” So, he brings him on to help them do Street View and then Larry Page says, “okay, now build me a self-driving car.” Sebastian Thrun says, "okay, well I happen to know the 12 best people on the world at this technology, I met basically all of them through the DARPA challenges."He has this meeting at his chalet in Lake Tahoe, at the end of 2008. And he brings together a dozen people and it's Anthony Levandowski and it's Chris Urmson and then people like Bryan Salesky — names that are now really the top tier in self-driving cars. And he says, “Google is going to build a self-driving car, we're going to have something that looks a whole lot like a blank check and I want this team to be the one to do it.” And that becomes Project Chauffeur. They become this really secretive project within Google, they go forth over the next couple of years, and they make this incredible progress in self-driving cars. And this is the story of the second half of the book: how this team it comes together and then how they ultimately come apart because as soon as they have to start thinking about how to make a product, how to commercialize this technology and the reality of money and power within the team become real wedge issues.Within them, you see rivalries, especially between Urmson and Levandowski, who are fighting for control and fighting for the direction of the team. Ultimately, things kind of break apart and what you see over time is as people leave and as this technology starts to look a lot more real, everyone splinters off to do their own thing, and this was what I call Google self-driving diaspora. Chris Urmson leaves to start Aurora. Bryan Salesky leaves to start Argo. Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu leave to start Nuro, Don Burnette leaves to start Kodiak, and Anthony Levandowski, of course, leaves to start Otto, which is acquired by Uber, which is the genesis of the Uber-Waymo huge self-driving lawsuit.Considerable amount of litigation that I believe is ongoing to this day, yes.So, the litigation did end, fortunately for everyone but the lawyers, I think. Uber and Waymo ultimately settled and then, weirdly, about a year after that, the Department of Justice charged Levandowski with criminal trade secret theft to which he ultimately pled guilty, and a few months ago he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he will not start his sentence until the pandemic is over.So, it definitely seems that this is still very much seen as the start of something, and you have covered a lot of this industry. What's kind of the state of the art now and where are things kind of moving forward?Well, fortunately for the industry, all of these personal rivalries, I think, have largely cooled off. And I think the book is really a history of how this got started and how these people pulled this technology forward, and then kind of came apart at the seams. But now what you've got is something that looks a little bit like a mature industry. You have Waymo with its program in the Arizona suburbs of Phoenix, and it's starting to really take the safety drivers out of its cars in earnest. Cruise, which is also a focus of the book, which is part of GM and also backed by Honda, is moving to take the safety drivers out of its cars in San Francisco, a much more dynamic environment, as it moves to start a self-driving system there. Self-driving trucks are looking much more serious than ever before. Argo AI, which has partnered with Ford and Volkswagen, is moving towards starting a taxi service, a robo-taxi service in Miami.I talk about the Gartner hype cycle where, I think, from 2014 to 2017 or so, we were really at peak hype, totally inflated expectations where everyone said, “your kids will never have to learn how to drive.” Chris Urmson is saying, "my 12 year old son will never have to learn to drive a car," and I'm pretty sure the kid's got his learner's permit by now. Those inflated expectations burst a little bit as people realize just how hard this technology is. But I think where we are now, on that Gartner hype cycle, is on what's called the slope of enlightenment, where people are getting more serious. Even if they haven't cracked the problem yet, I think they have a really good sense of what it takes to crack the problem, which, it turns out, is a lot of time, an incredible amount of money and at least 1,000 very talented engineers.Whole lot of lasers, a very sympathetic governmental oversight structure in a suburb of Phoenix. We have the ingredients for the solution, right?We could make it work. And so, I'm still optimistic about it, I still think the technology can do a lot of good. I think what people are figuring out is how to right-size this technology. People are figuring out how to actually apply self-driving cars in a realistic way, and I think the cooler projects out there are companies that are working on making self-driving shuttle cars for senior living communities, these big areas in Arizona and Florida, they cover 1,000 acres and people need to get around but can't necessarily drive anymore. And where the driving environment is pretty calm, that's a great use case. The trick right now is to figure out where you can make the technology work, and then the next question will be where can you actually make money off of this? That one I'm less bullish on because the economics of this, I think, are going to be pretty tough to crack.I mean, we're closing in on the end of this one, but DARPA seeded a little bit of the initial funds, it seems, for a lot of this research. Is that still an application that people are looking into or getting folks off the road in places that are dangerous?The army is still working on that, and I think those projects are still ongoing. But the initial push for DARPA was a line in a congressional funding bill from the end of 2000, it was one of the last things Clinton signed into law. And it mandated that by 2015, one-third of all ground vehicles, I think it was military, be unmanned, which was completely insane.How did we do? What's the number?I mean, maybe we've got three vehicles. That stuff hasn't panned out so much. But my favorite thing, one of the first people I managed to track down for this book was the guy, the congressional staffer who got that line into the bill. And I told him, I was like, "oh, I'm researching this and I would just want to ask you about why you put that in there and what your thinking was." And he goes, "Oh, did something come of that?"That's amazing.I was like, “yeah, I don't know, an industry that's predicted to be worth $7 trillion.”And what also came of it is Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car by Alex Davies. Alex, where can people find the book? You can find this book, basically, anywhere online, it's available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, your regular booksellers. It's out in hardcover January 5. You can also get the audiobook, you can get it on Kindle. Get it however you like, I just hope you enjoy it.My Twitter handle is @adavies47. You can find some of my work on Business Insider, where I'm the senior editor for our transportation desk.Ah, excellent website, very, very good website. If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! 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EP011 - Announcements, News, and AB 5 http://www.vehicle2.getspiffy.com The Vehicle 2.0 Podcast is back for the summer! Episode 11 is a news-focused episode, recorded on June 25th, 2019. We start off with an exciting piece of Spiffy news, which kept us busy during a several-week-long break. From there, Scot rounds up an array of industry news and explores their impact on the Vehicle 2.0 realm, including: Introducing Spiffy’s Fleet Management as a Service (FMaaS) model. Fiat Chrysler following Ford’s lead with the Uconnect Market, a new in-vehicle commerce platform. California’s AB5 Bill and its impacts for Uber/Lyft employees. Hertz launching their own subscription service, Hertz My Car. Mercedes-Benz expanding their subscription program, amidst brands like Cadillac shutting theirs down. BMW speeds up their electric vehicle rollout schedule, plans for 25 EVs in 2023. GM CEO Mary Barra says the Cruise AV unit is committed to safety, rather than being first on the market. If you enjoyed this episode, please write us a review on iTunes! The four pillars of Vehicle 2.0 are electrification, connectivity, autonomy, and changing ownership models. In the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast, we will look at the future of the auto industry through guest expert interviews, deep dives into specific topics, news coverage, and hot takes with instant analysis on what the latest breaking news means for today and in time to come. This episode was produced and sound engineered by Jackson Balling and hosted by Scot Wingo.   Transcript: Scot:  [00:56] Welcome to the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast! This is episode 11 and it's being recorded Tuesday, June 25th, 2019. Scot: [01:04] Welcome back vehicle 2.0 listeners. We had a little gap in episodes there and I apologize for that, but we are ready to get back on at least a biweekly schedule here with our little summer pre-summer break that we took. Um, we have a lot of exciting guests lined up in all of our favorite topics, so look forward to bringing you guys that soon. The main reason we took a gap was something that I want to start off with today. This is gonna be a news episode and we're going to kick it off with Spiffy's big news. So today we are actually announcing that we have raised over $10 million in funding led by Tribeca Ventures. Scot: [01:40] And then over the last year we've been stealthily opening fleet-oriented cities, so we're excited to announce that we're now in 11 markets. We have our first five markets, which were Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, LA, and Dallas. And now we've added an additional six: New York City, Washington, DC, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, and this week we opened Tampa. The last thing we're announcing today is our new service for fleets that we call "Fleet Management as a Service" (FMaaS). Working with fleets for the last couple of years, we realized they are looking for a comprehensive solution to all their challenges that integrates software services and a green orientation. So we'll be covering in fleeting. So services such as pre delivery inspections, re-conditioning and fueling, uh, and then through preventative maintenance, which is obviously wash and oil where we're known for, but adding a lot more capabilities there around tires and other PM activities. And then finally, the last cycle, last part of the lifecycle is d fleeting. So as these vehicles are leaving fleets, we can help there too. Uh, so reconditioning them, listening to them for auctions and defueling are some of the areas where we're helping fleets with. So excited to get that out there. That's been keeping us really busy here at Spiffy and we're glad to have that out in the news today. Scot: [02:59] With that, let's pivot away from spiffy and talk about the news in the industry. So as you know, the vehicle 2.0 framework has four components: connected car, changing ownership, electrification, and autonomy. So let's start with connected car, a lot of activities here. Since we last talked to you, Spiffy announced Ford had their announcement about connected car and they were in there with Amazon and Spiffy was included as well. So a lot going on in connected car, a Fiat Chrysler announced a new marketplace called you connect market that's part of their in vehicle marketplace platform. Scot: [03:39] Uh, and they talk about how customers can skip lines and save time by ordering food, beverages and reserve tables. They're launch partners are shell, Domino's, Park Whiz and Yelp. So it's gonna be interesting to see how, how some of these things are delivered. Should they be in the dashboards? Should they be in the OEMs APP or should they be separate apps with OEM connectivity? A lot activity, they're going on. A report came out in June, um, from the transparency market research firm, uh, about the connected car and they say that the connected car device market will surpass 20 billion by 2026. Uh, in there, uh, I definitely recommend that report. We're going to link to it in the show notes. A so in there it's pretty nursing. They talk about how by 2023, uh, OBD to dongles will essentially be, you know, uh, slowed down substantially as that's the kind of the point in time when they see the lines crossing where the automakers connected car capabilities will surpass kind of the what's called the retrofit devices that are out there changing ownership. Scot: [04:42] A lot of news this week. So, uh, here in 2019 we've enjoyed the IPO of both Lyft and Uber. And now there's just, yeah, there's a daily drumbeat of news coming out of those. Um, the, the one I wanted to talk about that's really interesting and a lot of people in industry are keeping their eye on is we have this larger gig economy. So not only do you have ride sharing like Uber and Lyft, uh, but all the food delivery, um, even like Amazon utilizes 10 99 drivers for delivering a bunch of its packages, uh, et cetera. So, so that, that Gig economy 10 99 is a really interesting part of the economy. Well, California has a law called in in the works called ab five. Uh, and this is actually passed kinda half of where it needs to go. And what it would do is it would dramatically tighten the rules around who can be treated as a 10 99 contractor versus a w two employee. Scot: [05:37] Uh, essentially when you read the rules, a Lyft, and Uber drivers would squarely be in the target here and they would move over from 10 99 contractors to w two. So this would subject them to all the normal employee rules, such as a 12 minutes, $12 an hour minimum wage, a daily and weekly over times, et cetera. Uh, what's this mean for Uber and Lyft? Well, one analyst, Ross Sandler at Barclays did a really kind of interesting back of the envelope here. So Uber has around 3.9 drivers globally. Half of those are our domestic and he estimates about six to 7% of those are effectively California trips. Lyft has 2 million drivers, all domestic. Um, so he believes they have about 15% of their businesses, California, so about double the exposure of Uber. Um, and then when you, when you kind of take the math, they're essentially, this would increase Uber's losses by 500 million, uh, annually. Scot: [06:33] Uh, 13% increase in Bern, uh, and then lifts 290 million or a 24% increase in Bern. So Wall Street's kind of keeping a very close eye on this and it's gonna be interesting to see how it plays out. Um, at the same time as these, since these guys have gone public there, they're working on their unit economics and trying to show investors that they're improving those. Uh, so for example, Lyft has been increasing. Uh, it's, uh, it's take rate, which means less pay for drivers. Uh, so for example, in the, uh, Xcel and black car segments, which are the larger vehicles and the limousine segment, um, they've decreased the pay out to drivers five to 6%. So there's definitely this showdown happening between the ride sharing companies and drivers, uh, and municipalities like California that we'll be keeping a really close island. Uh, another interesting, uh, segment of, uh, the changing ownership is subscriptions. Scot: [07:28] So these have had mixed results. So a lot of the OEMs came out with subscriptions. Um, Mercedes for example, this month announced they're actually expanding their program to add it to Atlanta. I believe that launched a national and now they're, they're adding more cities at the same time. Earlier this year, a Cadillac pulled back their offering. Well a new company threw their hat in the ring this month and that hurts. They launched my car, which is their subscription service. Uh, so if you go to hertz.com/hurts my car, uh, you can read all about it. They have two tiers to have $1,000 a month here and a $1,400 a month here. Uh, that's expensive. But when you read what's included is pretty interesting. So it includes insurance, all maintenance, uh, and there's really just kind of a month to month commitment and you get to swaps per month. Scot: [08:15] So the different tiers you have different classes of vehicles. So essentially tier one is kind of like that. Um, the, the one tier below kind of where you can walk up and get any fancy car. Um, and then the 1400 a month, uh, includes a lot of the hurts of select a vehicle choices. Um, this is targeted towards folks that, you know, um, have a lifestyle where, uh, you know, maybe most of the time they want to commute or tech car and then they want to go away for a weekend to the mountains and get an SUV or they want to go to the beach and get a convertible. So folks that are really kind of looking to swap out cars as part of their lifestyle and have everything taken care of them. So kind of that, that super convenience oriented consumer. Um, it's going to be, we'll keep an eye on the subscription programs and, and keep you posted on what's going on there. Scot: [09:02] Uh, let's move on to electrification. Uh, our next episode is going to be a heavy focus on electrification. So we want to save a bunch of time, uh, with you for that. Uh, but this week, uh, there was an announcement from BMW. So a BMW CEO essentially made a statement and said, by 2021, we will have doubled our sales and electrified vehicles compared to 2019. Uh, so they are heavily committed to electrification. Um, and by 2023, there'll be offering 25, uh, models there. Um, they announced they've sold 150,000 i3s in the US, which is the hatchback Evy. Uh, and then there are also investing in new plugin hybrid technology. Um, there's, there's a lot of interesting municipalities, uh, in Europe that are looking to have, um, you know, these, these areas that are called green zones where only I, uh, evs are allowed. Scot: [10:04] Um, so BMW is working on technology where the vehicle would detect that as entered one of these green zones. And, uh, essentially it'd be a plug in hybrid. It would only run the Evie as when it was in that part of the city. So a lot of really interesting things going on in the world. We're going to do a really big deep dive in the next episode. So that leaves autonomous vehicles where, uh, there's tons and tons of news. Um, so one of the first ones is kind of in the rumor category. So the, the information which is a, a publication focused on tech, um, it, it is reporting that they have heard. Uber is close to buying a company called Mighty Ai. A mighty AI is a Seattle based startup that helps autonomous vehicle developers trained their computer vision algorithms to identify objects better. Um, so you're seeing what I would call consolidation here, where, um, there's a lot of startups that do mapping and uh, you know, here on the show we've had folks that do the takeover driving type technology, et cetera. Scot: [11:06] Um, you're going to see, uh, the big guys, uh, Uber Waymo, apple, um, Jim's cruise division, uh, and then forward or kind of the five big a v providers. I think you're going to see them kind of start to grab some of these companies and make that technology proprietary in that genre. One of the biggest investors in this category is Softbank through their vision fund. Um, and they had a really interesting interview, um, where, uh, the managing partner that focuses on autonomy, Michael Ronen, uh, said that he doesn't think this is a really a winners take all, but it's kind of a quote unquote big boy's game. And by that he means the smaller independent companies are going to struggle because you know, the investments to play in this space are getting well north of 500 million to $1 billion would, which is certainly something that not many startups can stomach within, uh, within GMS Cruise Division. Scot: [12:04] Kind of some mixed news. In the last month, uh, on the negative side, they had this big demo, um, with uh, uh, one of their partners Honda where the CEO got into one of the prototype cruise vehicles. Um, and then about 20 minutes in, it was supposed to take this like little 30 minute ride around, I believe Las Vegas. Uh, and suddenly the car just kind of, uh, you know, freaked out. The software stopped. Uh, and then the, the backup driver had to take over and they couldn't really get the system restarted. And essentially they had to send a, another vehicle out there to pick them up the CEO and finish the demonstration. Having done many live demos in my life. This is a Murphy's law, always loves to jump in at the most inopportune time on these things. So, um, that was an example of, you know, probably what should have been a very gated experience kind of crashing. Scot: [12:54] Um, and obviously you wouldn't be, want to be in a car on the highway when that happened. Um, to that point, um, the, the CEO of GM Mary Barra, uh, talk, uh, to Axios, uh, I think in reaction to this and essentially said, um, that they have a very aggressive timeline to launch a self driving taxi. Uh, but they're not going to deploy the technology until it's safer than a human driver. So, um, they're, they're trying to start in San Francisco, uh, this year. But most folks realize that's probably not going to happen. Uh, another thing that we're starting to see is the OEMs are kind of partnering up with, with various folks if they don't have their own internal initiative. Um, so, uh, we also saw this month, uh, Renault in Nissan signed deals with Waymo where they're essentially going to be using the way mode technology as their Avy partner. Scot: [13:46] Uh, and then, uh, one of the, the, the remaining independents out there is called Aurora. That's a bunch of folks from Tesla and Google that got together. Um, that company is backed by sequoia has a, you know, it's kind of well over Unicorn status, so it's got like a $3 billion evaluation. Um, they signed a deal with Hyundai, Kia, and Fiat Chrysler. So you're starting to see the OEMs kind of line up with, with different folks and figure out who their partner is going to be so forward. Um, then, uh, they have their own initiative, uh, called Argo. Um, and they have locked up with Volkswagens. So Volkswagen kind of through their, their hand in with Ford. Um, they didn't really announce how much of the expenses would be shared. Um, but it is viewed that there, you know, the Volkswagen will probably invest in the Argo AI startup that is owning the, the Ford autonomy, um, and that a deal is imminent and should be announced as early as July. So appreciate you listening in this week. Scot: [14:55] So that's the quick news coming in from the future of vehicles with vehicle 2.0 next week, we are going to have a guest and do a deep dive into electrification and hope your summer's going well and safe driving!

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Peter Blumberg, Bloomberg News legal editor, discusses the latest updates in the Uber-Waymo trial, where Uber founder Travis Kalanick took the stand on Tuesday as a California court tries to decide whether Uber stole intellectual property from Google’s driverless car venture. Plus, Jennifer Daskal, a professor at American University Washington School of Law, discusses the prospect of a meeting between President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso.

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This is our News Roundup episode for the week. Having discussed the week's big Google news in the Question of the Week deep dive episode, this one covers the other tech news, including Spotify's 2016 financials, developments in the Uber/Waymo lawsuit, and a grab bag of Apple news including its acquisition of Lattice Data, reports of Tim Cook wearing an Apple Watch-connected glucose monitor, and manufacturing iPhones in India. As always, you'll find links to these stories and other things we discussed below. News stories we covered (Tech Narratives links unless otherwise noted): Spotify financials: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/18/★-spotifys-losses-widen-revenue-per-paying-user-drops-in-2016/ Uber/Waymo lawsuit: • Preliminary injunction: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/waymo-uber-injunction-made-public/ • Uber threatens to fire Levandowski: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/19/uber-threatens-to-fire-levandowski-if-he-doesnt-comply-with-court-orders/ Waymo/Lyft partnership: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/★-waymo-and-lyft-partner-over-self-driving-cars/ Apple Lattice acquisition: • Tech Narratives: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/★-apple-acquires-dark-data-analysis-company-lattice-data-reportedly-for-200m/ • TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/13/apple-acquires-ai-company-lattice-data-a-specialist-in-unstructured-dark-data/ Apple manufacturing iPhones in India: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/17/★-apple-makes-first-iphones-in-india/ As ever, we welcome your feedback via Twitter (@jandawson / @aaronmiller), the website (podcast.beyonddevic.es), or email (jan@jackdawresearch.com).