Podcasts by Smarter Cars
Smarter Cars is a show about the future of transportation from autonomous vehicles to electric scooters. We believe the future includes all modes of transport if we can choose the right tool for the job for each trip. We’re interviewing key players about policies to encourage multi-modal transport, the role for ride services and autonomous vehicles, reducing personal car ownership, the impact of micromobility, how to redesign our streets and curbs, fair road pricing and the role of transit. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smarter-cars/support
Further podcasts by Michele Kyrouz
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Maxim Romain - Dott from 2021-03-11T19:05:02
In this episode, we’re talking with Maxim Romain, co-founder and COO of Dott, a French micromobility company operating shared kick scooters and now e-bikes in Europe. We discuss Dott’s approach ...
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Peter Deppe - Kuhmute from 2021-03-08T17:00
Today we're talking with Peter Deppe, CEO/co-founder of Kuhmute, a company that provides universal charging docks for micromobility devices. We discuss how Kuhmute docks work with all form facto...
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Fred Jones - Tier from 2021-03-01T17:39:17
Today we’re talking with Fred Jones of Tier - a German company that has become one of the biggest micromobility players in Europe. Tier operates shared fleets of electric scooters and is rolling...
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Jameson Detweiler - Fantasmo from 2021-02-22T16:57:32
Today we're talking with Jameson Detweiler, President/Co-Founder of Fantasmo, a company that makes HD maps and provides hyper-accurate positioning services for micromobility companies. We discus...
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Ghassan Haddad - Lime from 2021-02-15T16:00
Today we're talking with Ghassan Haddad, Lime's Head of Public Policy and Communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa. We discuss Lime's operations in European cities, policy differences b...
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Shabazz Stuart - Oonee from 2021-02-01T16:00
Today we're talking with Shabazz Stuart, founder/CEO of Oonee, which makes secure parking structures for bikes and scooters in cities. You can see what Oonee looks like at Listen
Alex Nesic - Drover from 2021-01-25T17:00
Today we're talking with Alex Nesic, co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Drover. Drover provides an advanced IoT module for micromobility vehicles that is capable of granular infrastructure...
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Carl Vernersson - Voi from 2021-01-11T14:00
We interview Carl Vernersson, Chief Commercial Officer of Voi, a micromobility company based in Sweden. We discuss Voi's latest scooter and technology, including turn signals, sidewalk detection...
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Felix Petersen - Spin from 2021-01-04T14:00
In this episode, we talk with Felix Petersen, Head of Europe for Spin, about Spin's expansion into Europe, the approach to regulation in different European countries, the operational and infrast...
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Sam Kansara - Waymo from 2020-09-15T15:00
In this Season 5 finale, we're talking with Sam Kansara, a senior product manager at Waymo who is scaling the Waymo One driverless ride service and Waymo Via for trucking and local delivery. Way...
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Jewel Li - AutoX from 2020-08-06T21:14:06
Today we're talking with Jewel Li, the COO of AutoX, a company making an autonomous driving system for cars, delivery vehicles and long haul trucks. AutoX recently was the third company to recei...
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Graham Gullans - Superpedestrian from 2020-07-20T14:00
In this episode, we talk with Graham Gullans, VP of Business and Corporate Development at Superpedestrian, a company that makes intelligent electric scooters and bikes and now operates a shared ...
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Modar Alaoui - Eyeris from 2020-07-13T14:00
In this episode, we talk with Modar Alaoui, the CEO and founder of Eyeris, a company that provides in-vehicle scene understanding for cars with ADAS systems and fully autonomous vehicles. In-veh...
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Dmitry Shevelenko - Tortoise from 2020-07-06T14:06:45
In this episode, we talk with Dmitry Shevelenko, CEO and founder of Tortoise, a company providing remote repositioning services for lightweight electric vehicles such as scooters and delivery ro...
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Matthew Johnson-Roberson - Refraction AI from 2020-06-29T14:12:48
In this episode, we talk with Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the CEO and co-founder of RefractionAI, a company that builds and deploys robotic platforms to provide safe and scalable last mile goods d...
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Warren Logan - City of Oakland from 2020-06-25T18:35:45
In this episode, we talk with Warren Logan, the Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations for the Mayor’s Office of Oakland, California. Warren works closely with the City’s Departme...
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James Wu - DeepMap from 2020-06-22T15:22:56
Today we are talking with James Wu, founder and CEO of DeepMap. DeepMap creates high definition maps for autonomous vehicles and assisted driving systems, and provides a map engine service with ...
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Jason Stinson - Renovo from 2020-06-15T16:13:28
In this episode, we talk with Jason Stinson, CTO and co-founder of Renovo. We discuss Renovo’s origin story going back to 2010 - from its original electric supercar The Coupe, to working with St...
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Jody Kelman - Lyft from 2020-06-01T18:34:26
Welcome to Season 5 of the Smarter Cars podcast. In this episode, we talk with Jody Kelman, Director of Product Management, Lyft’s Self-Driving Platform. We discuss Lyft’s two-pronged approach t...
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Sam Baker - Wunder Mobility from 2020-01-27T16:12:50
In the final episode of Season 4, we interview Sam Baker, co-founder and COO of Wunder Mobility, a company which provides technology to build and scale shared mobility services worldwide. We dis...
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Colin Roche - Swiftmile from 2020-01-14T17:50:21
In this episode, we interview Colin Roche, co-founder and CEO of Swiftmile. Swiftmile is a company that makes and deploys charging stations in cities for micromobility devices such as electric s...
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Jeffrey Tumlin - SFMTA, Director of Transportation from 2020-01-02T23:10:18
Today we talk with Jeffrey Tumlin, the new head of San Francisco's transportation agency, the SFMTA, about the challenges of managing city transportation needs as the city grows and the streets ...
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Michael Granoff - A VC Perspective - Maniv Mobility from 2019-12-19T23:26:21
In this episode, we talk with Michael Granoff, Managing Partner at Maniv Mobility, for a year-end wrap on the transportation landscape from a venture capital perspective. We discuss his firm’s i...
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Jake Sion - COO of Transit from 2019-12-10T22:31:58
In this episode, we interview Jake Sion, the Chief Operating Officer of Transit. We discuss Transit’s business, the challenges of gathering real time data in cities and how cities can encourage ...
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Drew Gray - Voyage from 2019-11-20T17:07:30
Today we're talking with Drew Gray, CTO at Voyage, to do a deep dive on the state of deep learning in autonomous vehicle development and to discuss Deepdrive, a new Voyage project to advance res...
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Jordan Coleman - Kodiak Robotics from 2019-11-14T16:11:02
In this episode, we interview Jordan Coleman, General Counsel of Kodiak Robotics, about Kodiak’s autonomous trucking business, the key issues around safety and autonomy, and policy/regulatory ch...
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Giovanni Circella - UC Davis - Director, Three Revolutions of Future Mobility Program from 2019-10-30T15:22:39
Today we talk with Giovanni Circella, Director of the Three Revolutions Future of Mobility Program at UC Davis. We discuss his research on adoption of shared mobility services, like Uber/Lyft an...
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Robin Chase - Founder and former CEO of Zipcar - On the State of New Mobility from 2019-10-22T23:04:20
In this episode, we talk with transportation entrepreneur Robin Chase, the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar. We have a wide-ranging discussion on the state of transportation in cities today, ...
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SF Supervisor Matt Haney from 2019-07-15T18:23:22
Today we interview SF Supervisor Matt Haney. He is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 6 (Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, SOMA, Yerba Buena, Rincon Hi...
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SFMTA - Hank Willson, Parking and Curb Management from 2019-06-02T22:06:31
Today we’re talking about how to manage the curb and parking in this age of ridehailing services, micromobility, Amazon and food deliveries, and autonomous vehicles. Our guest is Hank Willson, P...
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rideOS - CTO Chris Blumenberg from 2019-05-28T00:12:39
In this episode, we talk with Chris Blumenberg, co-founder and CTO of rideOS. We discuss the rideOS platform which provides a broad set of products and services that can be used as building bloc...
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Lauren Mattern - Nelson\Nygaard - How Parking Policy Impacts Cities from 2019-05-21T01:22:06
In this episode, we talk with Lauren Mattern, a principal at Nelson/Nygaard, about parking policy and how it impacts cities. We discuss street parking and demand responsive pricing, including he...
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Coord - CTO Jacob Baskin from 2019-05-06T21:14:11
The curb is in high demand with TNCs picking up and dropping off passengers, delivery companies pulling over to deliver food, groceries and e-commerce items, and micromobility companies looking ...
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Harry Campbell - The Rideshare Guy from 2019-04-25T01:26:45
Today we're talking with Harry Campbell, founder of the Rideshare Guy blog and podcast, and the author of Listen
Perceptive Automata - Sam Anthony from 2019-03-22T14:54:33
In this episode, we talk with Sam Anthony, the CTO and co-founder of Perceptive Automata, a company that makes software to help autonomous vehicles understand human behavior. We discuss why it i...
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Aeye - President Blair LaCorte from 2019-03-15T14:30:06
Today we’re discussing Lidar and perception systems with Blair LaCorte, President of Aeye. We discuss Aeye’s technology and business, how Aeye created its products to mimic human perception, and...
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DeepScale - CEO Forrest Iandola from 2019-03-08T17:04:12
In this episode, we interview Forrest Iandola, the CEO of DeepScale, about vision and perception software using deep neural nets. We discuss DeepScale’s business, how it works with the rest of t...
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Talking Micromobility with Hong Quan of Karmic Bikes from 2019-02-28T18:50:55
Today we're talking about micromobility with local startup founder Hong Quan of Karmic Bikes. We discuss electric bikes, scooters and other form factors, the definition of micromobility, use cas...
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TuSimple - Robert Brown from 2019-02-23T20:24:04
We discuss autonomous trucking with Robert Brown, Director of Public Affairs at TuSimple. We cover the technology used by TuSimple in its autonomous trucks, its current operations which include ...
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Reilly Brennan - Trucks VC from 2019-01-23T21:13:39
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 Stanfor...
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Applied Intuition - Qasar Younis, Matthew Colford from 2018-10-16T22:11:52
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 impl...
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Warren Logan - San Francisco County Transportation Authority from 2018-09-07T20:00:50
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 ...
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Alisyn Malek - May Mobility from 2018-07-20T16:32:53
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 D...
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Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer, L.A. Metro from 2018-04-12T19:50:37
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...
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Ding Zhao - Autonomous Vehicle Safety/Testing (U. Michigan) from 2018-04-06T02:27:10
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? Wi...
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Brian Soublet - California Dept of Motor Vehicles from 2018-03-29T04:36:15
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 L...
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Philip Koopman - Carnegie Mellon - AV Safety from 2018-03-15T22:54:41
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 autono...
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Nico Larco - Urbanism Next @ U. Oregon from 2018-01-23T16:57:32
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...
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Regina Clewlow - Transportation Researcher UC Davis from 2017-11-03T19:48:09
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 i...
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Quin Garcia - Autotech Ventures from 2017-09-20T18:42:35
In this episode, we interview Quin Garcia, a Managing Director at Autotech Ventures. Autotech Ventures is a venture firm in Silicon Valley focused exclusively on funding gro...
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Lucy Yu of the U.K's CCAV from 2017-07-26T19:32:12
In this episode, we interview Lucy Yu, who is Head of Innovation and New Mobility Services at the U.K.'s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. We discuss the UK's approach to promoting ...
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Tarin Ziyaee - Voyage from 2017-07-07T04:40:14
In this episode, we talk with Tarin Ziyaee, Director of AI and co-founder at Voyage, which is working to make autonomous taxis. We discuss the engineering challen...
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Evangelos Simoudis - Synapse Partners from 2017-06-16T23:22:18
In this episode, we talk with Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners about autonomous vehicle business models, the impact of AVs on consumers, the auto industry an...
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Darton Ito of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency from 2017-06-05T04:39:30
In this episode, we talk with Darton Ito of SFMTA about the role of cities in determining how autonomous vehicles will be tested and deployed. We discuss safety, testing, pricing of access to ci...
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Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital from 2017-05-04T15:13:07
In this episode of Smarter Cars, we talk with Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital. We discuss the potential business models for deployment of autonomous vehicles, Lux C...
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A Conversation with Adam Thierer from 2017-04-01T02:49:59
In this episode of Smarter Cars, we discuss with Adam Thierer the role of government in regulating autonomous vehicles. Shoul...
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