Autonocast
Episodes
#264: Paris Marx on Silicon Valley's Road To Nowhere
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paris Marx is the host of the popular tech-critical podcast Tech Won't Save Us, and the author of a new book called Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Vall...
#263: There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessie Singer's new book There Are No Accidents has made a big splash in the road safety community and far beyond, by interrogating a word that makes ...
#262: Home On The Range
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ed's latest essay in the New York Times, calling into question the big batteries that have made EVs so popular among American consumers (who can affor...
#261: The Ranty (Mostly) Tesla Discussion Episode
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes you just need to let it out and rant a bit, and this week Alex, Kirsten and Ed are each feeling the need to screed. Unsurprisingly a lot of ...
#260: The Non-Tesla Discussion Episode
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The gang is back with another classic discussion episode, riffing on the latest and most important news from the mobility technology space. There's ju...
#259: Stefan Seltz-Axmacher of Polymath and Josh Hartung of Sygnal
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the AV sector entering another round of turmoil, we are joined by two founders who lost their startups during previous periods of turmoil but hav...
#258: Nat Beuse of Aurora on "The S Word"
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Safety is one of the words that comes up most often in discussions about autonomous vehicles, but not many people really understand what the word even...
#257: Sam Anthony
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Anthony made his first appearance on The Autonocast in 2018, when we discussed his pedestrian intent/prediction startup Perceptive Automata in epi...
#256: Bibhrajit Halder of SafeAI
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bibhrajit Halder has been a part of the autonomous driving technology space since the days of the DARPA Challenges, working on Caterpillar's early aut...
#255: NHTSA's New Crash Data and the Challenge of Automated Driving Regulation
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The gang is back together, and finally has the time to discuss NHTSA's release of ADAS and ADS crash data. We discuss the data, what it does and doesn...
#254: Gary Marcus
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the internet abuzz over the firing of a Google engineer who came to believe that a company chatbot is sentient, AI expert and deep learning skept...
#253: Avinash Rugoobur of Arrival
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arrival is a fascinating company on the brink of putting its bold vision of "microfactory"-made vans, busses and ridehailing vehicles into production....
#252: Taylor Ogan of Snowbull Capital
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Autonocast gang were all together at Kirsten's TechCrunch Mobility Sessions event recently, where they finally met Taylor Ogan of Snowbull Capital...
#251: Twilight Of The Stonks
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With "growth tech" stocks falling generally, and mobility tech companies like Tesla, Lyft and Rivian specifically down since the start of the year, th...