Looking Out - The Podcast

Hoo boy, it's been a beat!

But: Joe and Drew are back with a dissection of everything that's wrong with the Bugatti Tourbillon's windshield wiper, and the massively missed opportunity that is Apple's second-generation CarPlay.

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This episode gets personal! 

Join Joe and Drew as they explore the sensory and emotional components of car design through the lens of their beloveds: the Mercedes W140 S-Class and the Porsche 911. 

In this episode, they delve into their stories with these cars and how they came to be so meaningful to them.

They also discuss the importance of strong convictions around what character means to a brand, and how cars are paragons of multi-sensory orchestration.

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In this episode, we dive in to software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and what they mean for the customer experience. 

We cover why car makers are developing them, including their need to diversify revenue streams in saturated markets, and the ability to deliver over-the-air updates. 

We also talk about some of the pitfalls, like accelerated obsolescence and good ol' enshitification. 

And we talk about the character we loose when everything becomes software-defined.

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🔗 Links
Sam Saha's superb deep-dive on the software defined vehicle: https://sambuddha.com/share/vehiclesoftware/Saha_DefiningVehicleSoftware_002_SDV.pdf

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⏰ Time stamps
00:00 Pre-roll
03:42 The impending obsolescence of the software-defined vehicle
05:31 Background for the show
11:54 The car as part of a much larger ecosystem
17:18 The questionable wisdom of trying to do it all
19:33 Data as the new oil and the enshitification of the car
23:00 The pros of Ford Pro
46:11 Post-roll

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Other platforms and streaming - https://podcast.lookingout.io

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Joe and Drew take a look at the most significant exhibits and announcements coming out of Milan Design Week, and the Beijing Auto Show. And they touch on Tesla. How couldn't they?

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Five months ago, we recorded our most incendiary episode yet. In The EV Inferno, we wondered whether EV sales were about to fall off a cliff, or whether we’d just hit a bump in the road.

With the benefit of time, the picture’s becoming a little clearer, if no cleaner.

In this episode, we look at how the EV market might be fracturing between the EU, the US, and China, and what that means for legacy OEMs and startups, particularly when it comes to plug-in hybrids.

Of course, we can’t escape the travails at Tesla, and we look at the strengths that old-school car makers are bringing to the EV market as companies like Fisker stumble and fall.

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⏰ Time stamps
00:00 Pre-roll
00:55 Intro
04:11 The U.S. Market View
08:10 Tesla cancels the $25k czar
19:03 The return of the hybridc
24:17 OEMs are failing to effectively educate consumers
32:14 Is China running a different race?
33:30 The risk to consumers of EV startups failing
39:49 We were wrong about BMW's EV strategy 
52:01 Outro
52:13 Post-roll

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Sibilio. Bravo. Stratos. Magnum. And Shamal. Joe and Drew celebrate Gandini’s life and his greatest hits.

We also cover the BMW Vision Neue Klasse X, Euro NCAP’s physical button mandate, and a conversation about great gas station meals leads to us pondering the future of the road stop.

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⏰ Time stamps
00:00 Pre-roll 
00:30 Intro
01:39 Joe's apology
02:59 The death of Marcello Gandini, and Gandini's Top Trumps
19:53 BMW's Neue Klasse X
29:28 Euro NCAP's knob incentive
41:59 Our favourite gas station meals (and the future of the gas station)_
52:08 Outro

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The death of the desirable hatchback has been exaggerated. In the space of two weeks, we've been gifted the new Renault R5 and the Rivian R3 and R3X. We discuss their design, and what they mean for their respective manufacturers.

Meanwhile, the death of the Apple Car is now (almost definitely) certain and we explore why Apple finally caved.

And we also discuss what's happening to design in the C-Suite, and whether maybe our time at the big table is up, and whether that's actually a bad thing.

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🔗 Links
 @apolaine interviews Peter Merholz about the state of the design nation: https://www.youtube.com/live/XLQ3hnbdKcM?si=G-SsdVC4fv7XqAPk

Robert Fabricant - The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future: https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future

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⏰ Time stamps
00:00 Pre-roll
01:58 How do we stay positive?
09:20 The Death of Project Titan
27:53 Rivian's new products!
40:13 The Reanult R5
49:48 The big design freak-out
01:01:52 The need for a new Baccara
01:04:45 Outro

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Tesla Autopilot. Hyundai Highway Driving Assist 2. GM SuperCruise. Oh, and a Waymo robotaxi. This episode has it all. 

Joe and Drew talk about their experiences of each and ask the crucial question: what's it all for?

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Joe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-simpson-92863a2/

🔗 Links
Dude, where's my self-driving car - the latest from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/24065447/self-driving-car-autonomous-tesla-gm-baidu
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

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For over a decade now, the Consumer Electronics Show has also been one of the most significant automotive shows in the world.

In January 2024, after the year in which generative AI changed everything, Drew’s hopes were high for a few radical new takes on what the car might become when fused with artificial intelligence.

What he found was lipstick on a pig.

Join Joe and Drew as they take a look at the lowlights from the world’s largest trade show, and, yes, find some cause for joy.

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Back in 2019, Drew and Joe disagreed on what the Tesla Cybertruck represented. Has anything changed in the past four years?

In this episode, Drew and Joe take a look at what the most polarising car in living memory means as a piece of technology, as a piece of design, and as a cultural artefact.

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