Marc Hoag AI Law Pod (formerly Autonomous Cars with Marc Hoag)

So this is a big, hugely polarizing deal: Tesla has just unleashed the beta version of its so-called “full self-driving” or “FSD” for short. Released only to an extremely small, but unknown number of so-called “early adopter program” (“EAP”) customers, this software update — 2020.40.8.10 — unleashes the full suite of long promised “self driving” features in an admittedly risky package; so risky, i...

Today: Cruise to start driverless testing in California; Caterpillar grows its AV division; Local Motors plans to test its new Ollie 2.0 in Toronto. All this… right now. Driverless Cruise I’ve been a big fan of GM’s Cruise (formerly Cruise Automation) pretty much since ever. But I didn’t agree with their announcement in 2019 that they would release to the world a true driverless car — sans steerin...

You've likely heard of Harry Campbell, otherwise known as " The Rideshare Guy ," and chances are, if you are a driver for services like Uber or Lyft, you listen to his podcast religiously; and if you don't, well, do. So Harry recently emailed me to invite me to an event that he's putting on next week, with the impossibly awesome name Curbivore . It's bringing together thought leaders from the inte...

Today: We discuss the results of a study by Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP to crown Europe's safest vehicle (spoiler alert: it's not Tesla); when do we ban human driven vehicles; and we consider the path to EVs as a roadmap for AVs. All this... right now. Europe's safest vehicle A recent study was just published from Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP that sought to determine the safest vehicle you...

In a surprise move that came seemingly out of nowhere, Waymo has just opened up its Waymo One autonomous vehicle taxi services to the general public in its testing grounds just outside of Phoenix, Arizona; crucially however, these vehicles aren't just autonomous, they're driverless autonomous vehicles; i.e., Level 5 AVs. Until now, Waymo had been testing its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans w...

California recently announced a ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in 2035. This is an incredible decision but one which has been met with a surprising -- or not -- amount of resistance. I'm going to explain why everybody who disagrees with this is wrong. The first argument I've heard is people complaining that they should be allowed to buy ICE vehicles. This is not a...

On their research to classify cities into 5 archetypes to determine the optimal future mobility solution for each city Hoag+Co. associate Maximilian Richter and Andreas Herrmann, researchers at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, have joined me to talk about their latest multi-year study. If you remember, an often-discussed topic on this podcast has been a 2018 study by BCG and the World...

Austria's Magna Steyr and its imminent ICE to EV transition, and how it syncs up with an AV future If you want to attend MOVE America on September 1-3, grab your free passes here: hoagandco.com   I know I often say this about many guests on my show, but today’s discussion with Anna Kleissner, PhD and Michael Semmer, MS, was absolutely fascinating; easily one of my all-time favorite discussion...

A year and a half ago — January 2019 — I was invited to CES 2019 by the good folks over at HERE Technologies to moderate three days worth of talks. ( Here ’s the episode I did and a brief video .) Apart from getting seriously sick for those three days — a weird, hugely unpleasant thing for someone who, knock on wood, never gets sick — it was an otherwise fantastic experience. During those several...

If you have even a passing interest in Teslas — including and especially their recently-released Model Y, which I call “the most important vehicle since Henry Ford’s Model T some 112 years ago — then chances are you know Ryan Shaw and love his deeply informative, highly objective and sincere videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfv7-e6_6ZhvDL9-7Yw5OVA I’ve come to admire Ryan because, like me,...

Boom! Amazon buys Zoox for $1.2B; Nvidia and Mercedes partner up for AV tech in Mercedes vehicles from 2024; and Volvo and Waymo partner up, with Volvo getting lidar kit from Luminar.

Dmitry is the Founder & President of Tortoise, an autonomous/teleoperation e-scooter company.

Dr. James Wu Dr. James Wu is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at DeepMap. Prior to founding DeepMap, James built his career at Baidu, Apple, and Google. At Baidu, James served as Principal Architect for the self-driving team. At Google, James was a core member of Google Earth and Google Maps team. James earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and his BS in Computer...

Amazon Prime recently launched a (ridiculous) new show called Upload. The first 15 minutes show a passable take on an AV future in which the lead character's AV is hacked and he crashes and dies and goes to (virtual) heaven. There's a subtle, implicit reference to the trolley paradox, and a suggested solution to simply "prioritize" your AV according to your preferences, e.g., to prioritize pedestr...

1. GM Ultra Cruise: GM's current semi-autonomous driving tech, Super Cruise, uses onboard HD maps for certain freeways to enable hands-free driving on those freeways that are mapped. Now, GM is planning to expand this tech city streets with so-called Ultra Cruise. 2. E-Scooters are going autonomous as Go X borrows Tortoise's self-driving scooter retrofit kit to shuttle scooters autonomous to passe...

Today we speak with Andy Schaudt, Program Director at the Automated Vehicle Systems group at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.5

Today we discuss Zoox up for sale (and I predict VW grabs them up); Voyage and FCA partner up; Intel brings in Moovit to join Mobileye. 

Today, Ford delays their autonomous vehicle launch to 2022 due to COVID-19; GM’s Maven shuts down; and Audi releases A2D2, their autonomous vehicle training data set.

A fantastic, nearly 1-hour long conversation with Leanid Tsurankou, founder & CEO of Qibus ( website ), a teleoperation startup.

Today's #podcast episode, Ep148, is live! A fantastic episode with Hoag+Co. partner Martin Adler , PhD and associate Nick Reed , PhD (btw, search YouTube for his TEDx talk on autonomous cars!) coming at us from Amsterdam and Oxford, respectively, as we discuss the impact of #COVID on the #AutonomousVehicle industry. Have a listen now, and catch up with the last few episodes that I forgot to share!...

We address the question why AVs all look like bread loaves; BMW's approach to AV design; and further discussion on COVID's impact on AV, in this case, looking at Voyage.

#146-Covid's impact on delivery, testing, and regulation @hoagandco @autonomoushoag hoagandco.com

A few thoughts that came to my mind a few days ago. I put them to paper, and now I'm putting them to video , too. In light of the unthinkable global threat of #COVID19 (#coronavirus), and the recent turn for the worse in my home country of the USA, here's a bit of optimistic "historical patriotism" to offer some global hope and inspiration.

A fascinating conversation with Tal Cohen of Drive TLV , a Tel Aviv-based tech accelerator focusing on all things automotive, autonomous vehicles, and mobility.  @hoagandco | hoagandco.com @autonomoushoag YouTube.com/AutonomousCarsWithMarcHoag

A really great conversation with Allison Kender on all things passive safety -- crash structure, crash testing, etc -- and how it relates to, and needs to change, in anticipation of future autonomous vehicle  designs. @hoagandco | hoagandco.com @autonomoushoag YouTube.com/AutonomousCarsWithMarcHoag