Merge Now by Edward Niedermeyer

10.04.2019

Bonus Episode: Mark Truman Appeals To Investors To Rescue The Arc Vector

Mark Truman is back on the show under difficult circumstances: a major investor has failed to deliver on their commitments, and Arc is in administration (bankruptcy). With one week to get financing together, Mark explains the situation and appeals to...

10.03.2019

#14: Tarani Duncan of Shared on "Scooter 2.0"

Tarani Duncan of Shared has a deep background in micromobility, which she's leveraging into a company that seeks to offer a more sustainable and usable alternative to the ubiquitous stand-up scooters. Ed caught up with her at Shared's Portland HQ,...

09.25.2019

Episode #13: Jon Mullen of Righthook, Introduces his Open Scenario Language

Jon Mullen, CTO of the simulation company Righthook, recently created an open scenario language and joins MergeNow to discuss his creation and its applications.

09.18.2019

Episode #12: Hong Quan of Karmic Bikes on the eBike Business and Micromobility's Future

Karmic Bikes founder Hong Quan joins MergeNow to talk about his just-revealed Oslo eBike/eScooter hybrid and the evolution of Micromobility more broadly.

08.21.2019

Episode #11: Jason Stinson of Renovo on Selling the Picks and Shovels of the Autonomous Gold Rush

As the venture capital community's appetite for massive investments in AV developers wanes, companies that were floating on easily-raised cash are going to have to turn their science experiments into something more closely resembling actual business operations and companies like...

07.31.2019

Episode #10: Alysin Malek of May Mobility on the Autonomous Urban Shuttle Business

As The Drive's recent reporting on the struggles of the French autonomous low-speed shuttle company Navya demonstrate, building a business around autonomous drive technology in the short term is tough. One company that seems to have managed the challenge well...

07.17.2019

Episode #9: Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility

Mike Granoff reflects on his early efforts to rethink mobility and how they evolved into Maniv Mobility, a venture capital powerhouse that just closed a $100 million fund dedicated to supporting the future of transportation.

06.26.2019

Episode #8: Bryan Salesky of Argo AI On The Evolution Of Autonomy

Bryan Salesky of Argo AI joins the show to reflect on how things have changed in the world of autonomous drive technology as it transitions from science experiment to real-world products and services

06.20.2019

Episode #7: Building The Motorcycle Of The Future, with ARC Vehicles CEO Mark Truman

On this week's Merge Now, ARC CEO and former Jaguar Land Rover "special operations" engineer Mark Truman joins the show to explain all the wild technology going into ARC's futuristic Vector motorcycle, how these technologies are being used to enhance...

06.12.2019

Episode #6: Dan Albert on The Automobile's Past, Present and Future

Dan Albert joins Merge Now to discuss his new book "Are We There Yet?" which explores the lessons that automotive history holds for the future of our relationship with cars and driving.

06.05.2019

Episode #5: Why HD Mapping Matters, With Shaun Stewart

Elon Musk's lidar bashing has grabbed public attention and dominated conversations about autonomous drive technology, but his dismissal of high definition mapping has flown under the radar. According to Shaun Stewart, a Waymo veteran and new advisor and investor at...

05.29.2019

Episode #4: Trevor Reed of INRIX on Traffic and Mobility

INRIX transportation analyst Trevor Reed joins the show to break down the long-term trends in traffic, how urban development affects your commute, and how local differences in traffic could create a more fragmented future market for mobility technologies.

05.22.2019

Episode #3: Oliver Bruce On The Year Of The Scooter

2018 was without doubt "the year of the scooter," as brand-new startups grew at dizzying rates and micromobility replaced autonomous vehicles as the hottest trend in mobility technology. Oliver Bruce has been at the center of all the excitement,...

05.17.2019

Episode #2: Dr Missy Cummings on MIT's Autopilot Study

Dr Missy Cummings of Duke University joins the show to help walk us through the findings of other automation studies as well as the importance of sound methodology and peer review in studies like Fridman's. As a professor at Duke's...

05.08.2019

Episode #1: Doubting Driverless Dilemmas with Sam Anthony and Julian De Freitas of Harvard

According to Sam Anthony and Julian De Freitas of Harvard Psychology, the level of interest in ethical dilemmas for autonomous vehicles is not matched by its relevance to actual AV development. Drawing on his experience as co-founder of Perceptive Automata,...