Smarter Cars

By Michele Kyrouz

Smarter Cars is a show about the future of transportation - from autonomous vehicles to electric scooters and beyond. We're interviewing key players in transportation, autonomy, robotics and the AI th... more

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The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.

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January 23, 2019 Reilly Brennan - Trucks VC
Today on the podcast we have Reilly Brennan, a founding general partner of Trucks VC, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on transportation. He also holds a teaching appointment at Stanford University and is the author of the Future of Transportation newsletter.
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51min
October 16, 2018 Applied Intuition - Qasar Younis, Matthew Colford
In this episode, we interview Qasar Younis and Matthew Colford of Applied Intuition about simulation and its role in developing and testing autonomous vehicles, including the safety and policy implications.
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59min
September 07, 2018 Warren Logan - San Francisco County Transportation Authority
In this episode, we talk with Warren Logan, a senior transportation planner at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority about the regulation of emerging mobility services in SF, including TNCs and scooters, and ways that industry can work more collaboratively with city government. We discuss the SFCTA's July 2018 Emerging Mobility Evaluation Report, including its conclusions and policy recommendations.
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1h 6min
July 20, 2018 Alisyn Malek - May Mobility
Welcome to Season 2 of Smarter Cars. We talk with Alisyn Malek, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of May Mobility, about their commercial deployment of autonomous shuttles on public roads in Detroit and plans for future expansion.
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45min
April 12, 2018 Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer, L.A. Metro
In this episode, we interview Joshua Schank, the Chief Innovation Officer for L.A. Metro. We discuss the challenges facing public transit as mobility options evolve, and the innovative approach L.A. Metro is taking to improve transportation and mobility options in L.A. County, including pilot programs involving mobility on demand and microtransit.
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43min
April 06, 2018 Ding Zhao - Autonomous Vehicle Safety/Testing (U. Michigan)
In this episode, we discuss autonomous vehicle safety and testing with Ding Zhao, Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. How will we know when AVs are safe enough to deploy? Will it take driving billions of road miles? We discuss his method of using accelerated evaluation techniques to more efficiently test safety scenarios and achieve confidence in AV safety.
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41min
March 29, 2018 Brian Soublet - California Dept of Motor Vehicles
In this episode, we discuss the new California autonomous vehicle regulations with Brian Soublet, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel for the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The California Legislature implemented legislation in 2012 directing the DMV to issue regulations governing autonomous vehicles. Over the last six years, the California DMV has issued two sets of regulations to govern the testing and now deployment of autonomous vehicles in California, with the first set in 2014 and the second set becoming effective on April 2, 2018. Brian Soublet has been instrumental in forming these regulations and he joins us to discuss some of the key points in the new regulations and how we got here.
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1h 6min
March 15, 2018 Philip Koopman - Carnegie Mellon - AV Safety
Our guest is Professor Philip Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University. He’s been researching automotive safety and embedded systems for more than 20 years and is currently focused on safety in autonomous vehicles. We discuss how to think about autonomous vehicle safety, including what level of safety is appropriate, and how to measure and test safety with rigorous design engineering.
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50min
January 23, 2018 Nico Larco - Urbanism Next @ U. Oregon
Our guest is Nico Larco from the University of Oregon, and we discuss the secondary impacts of autonomous vehicles on cities, including potential effects on parking, transit, street design, land use, urban planning, sprawl and real estate valuation.
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1h 11min
November 03, 2017 Regina Clewlow - Transportation Researcher UC Davis
In this episode, we talk with Regina Clewlow, a leading transportation researcher on shared mobility and autonomous vehicles. She recently published a UC Davis study regarding the adoption and impact of shared mobility services on cities. We discuss the findings of her study and possible implications for autonomous vehicles, public transit and city policies.
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44min

FAQs about Smarter Cars:

How many episodes does Smarter Cars have?

The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.