Mark Halperin

All right, next up, two other problems I'm having understanding is America's relationship to electric vehicles and what I like to call self-driving cars.

These are massive, massive pieces of technology that I don't know where the United States stands and where we stand as consumers, where industry stands and our competition with China.

All important topics that I cannot solve except with the help of one patriotic American, Alex Roy.

general partner at New Industry Venture Capital, co-founder of, Alex, how do you pronounce that?

Autonicast?

You got it.

Autonicast.

If you Google Alex or feed him into the AI machine, you'll probably see that he's got lots of different things that he's done.

Best known perhaps as the

Godfather of the modern cannonball run.

We'll talk about that.

He has set numerous transcontinental driving records.

Most recently, the first ever fully autonomous zero intervention cross-country record.

I went in AI and I had a big fight with it about Alex because I was like, let's define Alex because Alex should be the subject of miniseries, novellas, telenovelas.

I've been a tech entrepreneur, underground endurance racer.

best-selling author, EV record setter, autonomy, and mobility commentator.

Yeah, you're like a modern-day Thomas Jefferson meets Burt Reynolds.

That's how I think of you.

That's too kind.

Just talk about these races that you've done, record-breaking competitions.