The Road to Autonomy

Steven Jenkins, Vice President of Technology Strategy,  Magna  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss Magna’s partner approach to developing autonomous driving systems.  The conversation begins with Steven discussing how Magna is approaching safety systems.  Magna is one of the only real few suppliers that has the entire set of enablers to...

Harry Campbell  aka  The Rideshare Guy  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the rideshare industry, the role that power drivers play in the ecosystem and his thoughts on Uber’s growing hybrid network. The conversation begins with Grayson and Harry discussing Uber’s outperformance compared to the S&P 500. Over the last 12 months,  Ube...

Ian Rust , Founder & CEO,  Revoy  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the development of Revoy and why hybrid is the right approach to electrifying Class 8 trucks.  The conversation begins with Ian discussing Revoy’s approach to hybrid technology for electrified trailers. We view hybrid definitely the most viable solution for electrificat...

Timothy Dooner , Host,  WHAT THE TRUCK?!? , joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discus the rise and fall of digital freight brokerages and the growth of autonomous trucking The conversation begins with Dooner discussing his outlook for the freight market. There is 8. 1% less brokerages than there were a year ago at the start of this year. But there’s still 17%...

Shannon Nash , Chief Financial Officer,  Wing , an Alphabet company joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss Wing’s operations in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) region and why 2024 is the year of autonomous drone delivery.  The conversation begins with Shannon discussing how Wing is approaching autonomy and how the service works. The most commonly deliver...

Matt McLelland , VP of Sustainability and Innovation,  Covenant  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss why it all comes down to unit economics when fleets are evaluating new trucking technologies such as battery electric trucks and autonomous trucks.  The conversation begins with Matt discussing how Covenant is thinking about implementing batte...

Pete Bigelow , Senior Reporter,  Automotive News  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the current state of the mobility markets. Markets that are in flux with EV sales falling, GM rebooting Cruise, while Waymo scales and the autonomous truck industry prepares to launch commercial operations.  The conversation begins with Pete sharing his insi...

Mike Murphy , Republican Political Strategist, Co-Host of  Hacks of Tap  and CEO,  EV Politics  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the politics of electric vehicles and their impact on the 2024 election. The conversation begins with Mike discussing his  cross-country journey  from central New Hampshire to Los Angeles in a VW I...

Dean Foreman , Chief Economist,  Texas Oil and Gas Association  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss his 2024 outlook for the oil & natural gas markets.  The conversation begins with Dean sharing his outlook for the  oil and natural gas markets . The outlook for oil and natural gas looks bright. – Dean Foreman Last year, the worl...

Edwin Olson , CEO & Co-Founder of  May Mobility  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss going driver-out in Sun City, Arizona and the economics of the business.  The conversation begins with Edwin discussing what went into launching fully  driverless operations  in Sun City, Arizona.  There is a bunch of technology that has to...

Joanna Buttler , Head of the Global Autonomous Technology Group,  Daimler Truck North America  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the development of the autonomous-ready Freightliner Cascadia and Daimler Truck’s outlook for autonomous trucking.  The conversation begins with Joanna discussing how Daimler Truck North America is approaching aut...

James Reed , COO,  Kodiak Robotics  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how Kodiak is scaling the business with financial discipline, economic scenario planning and operational readiness as the company ramps up commercial operations heading into 2024.  The conversation begins with James sharing his thoughts on the current state of the  a...

David Welch , Detroit Bureau Chief,  Bloomberg  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the future of Cruise and how the robo-taxi market will shakeout. What moves will Waymo, Zoox and  Motional  make now that Cruise has been sidelined for the foreseeable future? The conversation begins with David discussing how GM moves forward with  C...

Ali Javidan , Founder & CEO,  Range Energy  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss electrified trailers and the impact that these trailers will have on truck fleets.  The conversation begins with Ali sharing what inspired him to create an electrified trailers startup. It all starts with a question he asked himself; What if we electrified the...

Jana Breitkopf , Managing Director,  Mercedes pay USA  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how Mercedes pay is enabling the future of in-car experiences.  The conversation begins with Jana discussing how Mercedes is approaching in-car payments.  We want to make it as easy and as convenient as possible for our drivers to use services like...

Olivia Hu , Head of Autonomous Trucking,  Uber Freight  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how autonomous trucking is going to complement and accelerate the growth of Uber Freight’s $18 billion of freight under management platform.  The conversation begins with Olivia discussing the current state of the autonomous trucking industry.  Th...

Lee White , Founder & President,  LM White Consulting  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss why autonomous trucking is a big business opportunity and what the economics of that business will look like when autonomous trucks are operating commercially.  The conversation begins with Lee discussing the current state of the  autonomous tr...

Sam Abidi , Chief Commercial Officer,  Monarch Tractor  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss Monarch’s autonomous MK-V tractor and how the growing labor shortages are accelerating the adoption of autonomous tractors on farms around the world.  The conversation begins with Sam discussing how Monarch Tractor is approaching autonomy.  From d...

Sterling Anderson , Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer,  Aurora  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the founding of Aurora, the economics of the Aurora business model why the world’s best product is a very profitable product.  The conversation begins with Sterling discussing why Chris Urmson, Drew Bagnel and himself came together to form...

Dean Foreman , Chief Economist,  Texas Oil & Gas Association  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the growing global demand for oil and its economic impact on the global economy.  The conversation begins with Dean discussing the current state of the oil markets.  It’s a tight market and despite everything that has been going on we re...

Matt Soule , CEO and Co-Founder,  Parallel Systems  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how Parallel Systems will act as an economic growth engine for the rail industry.  The conversation begins with Matt discussing how Parallel Systems business has evolved since he  last joined  Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy roughly year a...

Vinay Shet , Co-Founder & CEO  Teleo  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss Teleo’s approach to supervised autonomy in a labor light economy. The conversation begins with Vinay discussing how Teleo is approaching supervised autonomy and it’s benefits. By switching between tele-operations and autonomy and switching between machine one, machine tw...

Gabe Sganga , Head of Commercial Growth,  RRAI  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss RRAI’s focus on autonomy for military and defense applications and how they have been able to apply the learnings from battle to their civilian business. The conversation begins with Gabe discussing why RRAI is focused on autonomy for military and defense applicati...

Paul McGlone , CEO,  Seeing Machines  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss scaling Seeing Machines in-cabin sensing technology.  The conversation begins with Paul discussing how Seeing Machines in-cabin sensing technology adapts to meet consumer and regulatory demand. The primary driver of demand is regulatory. – Paul McGlone Today, the i...

David Welch , Detroit Bureau Chief,  Bloomberg  joined  Grayson Brulte  on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the UAW strike and the launch of Stack AV.  The conversation begins with David sharing the latest on the UAW (United Auto Workers) strikes against the Big 3 (Ford, GM and Stellantis). UAW President Shawn Fain has taken a different approach to the negotiations...