Shift: A podcast about mobility
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On Shift: A podcast about mobility, Automotive News tech and innovation team leader Pete Bigelow takes an optimistic yet skeptical eye at the new tech and business models planned for the auto industry. Shift is a production of Automotive News, the leading publication covering the auto industry. Check out our reporting online at autonews.com/shift and follow us on Twitter @Automotive_News.
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May 9, 2021 • 46min
Anthony Foxx on building the long road to transportation equity (Episode 96)
Anthony Foxx on building the long road to transportation equity (Episode 96) by Automotive News
May 2, 2021 • 44min
Light, Cameras, Breakthrough: Dave Grannan on 1,000-meter perception tech (Episode 95)
The CEO of sensor startup Light discusses the company’s 3D camera technology, how it can perceive objects at ranges three times farther than current industry standards and its potential for improving automated-driving systems.
Apr 25, 2021 • 42min
Researcher Liza Dixon on the perils of ‘autonowashing’ (Episode 94)
Liza Dixon, a Ph.D. candidate studying human-machine interaction, discusses the dangers of automakers overstating the capabilities of their driver-assist systems and the delicate trust they must forge between motorists and technology.
Apr 18, 2021 • 41min
Aerion Supersonic’s Matt Cram on ‘Speed As A Service’ (Episode 93)
Matt Cram, chief commercial officer at Aerion Supersonic, discusses the rebirth and future of supersonic air travel and the company’s partnership-minded approach to creating a “global mobility network.”
Apr 11, 2021 • 42min
Edwin Olson charts bold changes at May Mobility (Episode 92)
An international expansion. A new vehicle platform. A new senior management team. May Mobility CEO Edwin Olson discusses the company’s series of changes over the past year and its overall place in the transportation ecosystem.
Apr 4, 2021 • 40min
Raven Hernandez pioneers an EV-only ride-hailing service (Episode 91)
Move over, Uber and Lyft? Raven Hernandez, founder and CEO of startup Earth Rides, discusses why she’s launched a Nashville ride-hailing network with Teslas, a Ford Mustang Mach-E and Polestar electric vehicles, and how she’s found quick success.
Mar 28, 2021 • 42min
Jonathan Adkins fights latest surge in pedestrian-death crisis (Episode 90)
Pedestrian deaths have risen by nearly 50 percent over the past decade. Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association, analyses the long-running challenges, and provides fresh details on a troubling rise in fatality rates during the first six months of COVID.
Mar 21, 2021 • 47min
Sean Harrington on the 'ideal' setting for deploying AVs (Episode 89)
The CEO of Optimus Ride discusses his company's strategy of placing self-driving shuttles in campus environments, its plans to raise additional capital and the transition to full autonomy.
Mar 14, 2021 • 45min
Phil Koopman proposes an easier way to talk about automated driving (Episode 88)
Phil Koopman, co-founder and chief technology officer at Edge Case Research, offers a consumer-friendly complement to the SAE Levels of Automation. Further, he discusses safety standards for self-driving cars and methods for ensuring systems can handle rare driving scenarios.
Mar 7, 2021 • 36min
J.D. Power's Stewart Stropp on lukewarm EV shoppers (Episode 87)
Stewart Stropp, senior director of automotive retail, talks about the results of J.D. Power’s inaugural U.S. Electric Vehicle Consideration study. For some consumers, a Tesla isn’t always tried and true. For others, one factor that makes them hesitant about a EV is a lack of information.
