Disruption Drive

This week, I host Ezra Goldman, CEO and Founder of Upshift, a true mobility pioneer. Upshift is envisioning a world where a car comes to you, runs your errands, parks itself and is cleaned and maintained for you to use when you want - all for a monthly fee. After the many fitful starts for vehicle subscriptions, Upshift may just have gotten the business model and timing right in time for Autonomou...

I host Prof. Gad Allon, of the Wharton School of Business to talk through how to build a Supply Chain and Organization when you aim at Zero Defects and Zero Deaths. When an entire industry and billions of dollars have gone in promising exponential benefits in safety, how can an organization tasked with that massive responsibility actually implement that vision? We talk: 1. Are Zero Deaths even rea...

I host Anthony Trasatti, one of the founders at Ontra Mobility, a Y Combinator backed disruptor aiming to help transport agencies plan routes, inventory, fleet and increase ridership for public transport. We talk about one of the world's biggest challenges - building affordable, accessible and sustainable public transit. We debate: 1. What trends are making this a unique time for public transit? 2...

I host Ganesh Kalpundi, Chief Strategy Officer at Vontier. Ganesh spends his days thinking deeply about the implications of Mobility 4.0 and the evolution of fleet technology from data collection to advanced insights. We talk: 1. What is Mobility 4.0? 2. Why is the Convenience Store a core enabler for Transport infrastructure? 3. What does a Multi-Energy future look like? 4. How is Fleet Repair ch...

I host Peter Fallon, Strategy Head at Motional. Peter spends his days thinking deeply about Commercialization in the Robotaxi industry. Incidentally, Motional was one of the earliest deployments of robotaxis ever - Las Vegas in 2022. We talk: 1. Is the industry too focused on Safety, to the exclusion of everything else? 2. How does Motional's unique Large Driving Model reduce cost of launch, throu...

A unique, episode where I host Rob Snyder, one of the foremost practitioners of Zero to One thinking. Rob is a fellow of the Harvard Innovation Labs, a serial entrepreneur and ex-McKinsey. We apply some of his product market fit frameworks to think about Autonomous Vehicles. You don't have to be a Automotive nerd to listen to this one! Must listen.

Does a driverless vehicle make women safer on the road? Drivers and Passengers. I am joined today by two phenomenal leaders in the Autonomous Vehicle industry, talking about an often overlooked but deeply critical issue in society. @Katelyn Magney-Miller and @Samantha Lin join me in this profound discussion debating the merits and demerits of the disruption in transport. 1. Is this an issue that g...

Cameron Gieda is a leading thinker who has spent a career bringing deep innovations to market. Join us as we debate how an intangible benefit such as safety can be communicated to a customer. What makes an Autonomous Vehicle safe? When should a passenger feel that a car driven by a robot is actually safe enough. What happens when all the data in the world does not convince a passenger to "feel" sa...

I host Dan Grossman. Simply put, Dan has led ever major disruption in Mobility over the last 20 years. With stints at Zipcar, GM Maven, Cruise and Ford Chariot, Dan and I chat about the inflection point of Autonomous Vehicles in 2025. - How is 2025 turning out to be the inflection point for Autonomous Transport? What does increasing investor demand for Commercialization mean for Regulators, Cities...

Distinguished Engineer Florian Rohde (ex-Tesla and ex-Nio), now Founder of iProcess Consulting shares deep insights on the Autonomous Vehicle technology suite: We talk: - Sensor Tradeoffs: What really separates Lidar, Cameras, Radar, Ultrasonics? How do Passenger Autonomous Vehicles differ from Delivery ones? Software Defined Vehicles: What is the car of the future going to look like? Why do Softw...

I host Fabio Tylim of Guident, market leaders in the world of remote monitoring and control of Autonomous Vehicles. When technology meets its limits, Guident provides human drivers - sitting many miles away to drive the vehicles. Join me in talking about one of the most important disruptions in the Mobility universe. What does a remote driver mean? What does it take to take control of an Autonomou...

Join me as I host the peerless Elinor Doubell on what makes a Robot safe enough to travel the road while carrying people and goods We talk: What are the major components of an AV? When and how should an AV be deemed road safe? Is it better to retrofit or make an autonomous car from the ground up? Is Mapping becoming unnecessary and the cost of entry going down?

I host one of the deepest thinkers I know in the AV space. Michael Barnard is peerless in how he applies scientific rigor, behavioral economics and engineering principles in breaking down the hardest problems in Autonomous Vehicles. We talk about: - How Tesla got the technical stack right originally but then blew it's lead - Why is a multi sensor approach so hard that only Google can pull this off...

Join me once again on Disruption Drive. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael McGrath, (Author of Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Strategies and Disruptions, and ex-founder of PRTM). Michael is one of the finest minds thinking about passenger AVs and disruption. Listen on his take on what the future holds.

I speak with Adam Raviv (Sidley Austin, ex-NHTSA) about the inflection point in AVs and how regulations are adapting to the new normal. We talk about the regulatory environment, what companies need to navigate and how it affects the playing field