I first discovered the Arc Vector in a series of intriguing patent filings that led first to a story about the high-end electric motorcycle's mind-blowing tech, and then to an episode of MergeNow with the founder Mark Truman. Today Mark is back

#14: Tarani Duncan of Shared on "Scooter 2.0"

Oct 3rd, 2019 56m 33s

Thee "Year Of The Scooter" brought cheap little Xiaomi and Ninebot standup scooters to cities around the world, opening the public's eyes to the joys of micromobility in places where the concept of lightweight, shared electric vehicles had neve

Episode #13: Jon Mullen of Righthook, Introduces his Open Scenario Language

Sep 25th, 2019 41m 58s

As autonomous drive development marches forward and collaboration accelerates, a new need is emerging: a language that can standardize descriptions of driving scenarios. Not only is such a language important for inter- and intra-team collaborat

Episode #12: Hong Quan of Karmic Bikes on the eBike Business and Micromobility's Future

Sep 18th, 2019 42m 52s

Thanks to the explosive growth of scooter companies during 2018's "Year of the Scooter," a lot of the American public's understanding of Micromobility seems to begin and end with tiny-wheeled, semi-disposable Limes and Birds.Outside the US, how

Episode #11: Jason Stinson of Renovo on Selling the Picks and Shovels of the Autonomous Gold Rush

Aug 21st, 2019 26m 45s

Would you be surprised to learn that a number of autonomous vehicle development programs offload data from their test vehicles by physically pulling out a hard drive and shipping it by snail mail to a cloud services provider? When Jason Stinson

Episode #10: Alysin Malek of May Mobility on the Autonomous Urban Shuttle Business

Jul 31st, 2019 30m 22s

As The Drive's recent reporting on the struggles of the French autonomous low-speed shuttle company Navya demonstrate, building a business around autonomous drive technology in the short term is tough. Growing without overextending, deploying w

Episode #9: Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility

Jul 17th, 2019 29m 37s

I was covering the traditional auto industry when I first met Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility, and looking back I realize that he was the person who introduced me to the way of thinking about cars and mobility that has grown into my obsession wi

Episode #8: Bryan Salesky of Argo AI On The Evolution Of Autonomy

Jun 26th, 2019 53m 15s

In 2007, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the DARPA urban challenge and kicked off the push for autonomous vehicles that now has real cars driving on real roads and will soon birth real businesses. Bryan Salesky was a key contributor to

Episode #7: Building The Motorcycle Of The Future, with ARC Vehicles CEO Mark Truman

Jun 20th, 2019 54m 40s

The most exciting new mobility technologies are most typically being used to make vehicles safer and more efficient, but why aren't more being used to take the enjoyment of enthusiast driving to new levels? At the new electric motorcycle startu

Episode #6: Dan Albert on The Automobile's Past, Present and Future

Jun 12th, 2019 1h 8m

When you stand on the brink of staggering change, the path forward can often be found by looking back. That's the premise of Dan Albert's excellent new book Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present and Driverless, which scours th

Episode #5: Why HD Mapping Matters, With Shaun Stewart

Jun 5th, 2019 40m 15s

Elon Musk's lidar bashing has grabbed public attention and dominated conversations about autonomous drive technology, but his dismissal of high definition mapping has flown under the radar. According to Shaun Stewart, a Waymo veteran and new ad

Episode #4: Trevor Reed of INRIX on Traffic and Mobility

May 29th, 2019 30m 44s

INRIX collects a huge amount of location-based data that it turns into insights into parking and traffic, powering popular apps like Waze and helping cities manage mobility challenges. In its recent Global Traffic Scorecard, INRIX looks into it

Episode #3: Oliver Bruce On The Year Of The Scooter

May 22nd, 2019 27m 59s

2018 was without doubt "the year of the scooter," as brand-new startups grew at dizzying rates and micromobility replaced autonomous vehicles as the hottest trend in mobility technology. Oliver Bruce has been at the center of all the excitemen

Episode #2: Dr Missy Cummings on MIT's Autopilot Study

May 17th, 2019 47m 5s

Lex Fridman's recent Autopilot study has received a lot of attention, both for its provocative claims about how the Tesla driver assistance system is used in the real world and for its questionable methodology. This week, Dr Missy Cummings of D

Episode #1: Doubting Driverless Dilemmas with Sam Anthony and Julian De Freitas of Harvard

May 8th, 2019 35m 37s

One of the most popular topics related to driverless cars is the idea of moral dilemmas, often presented in terms of the "trolley problem" where a driving agent must decide between two bad choices. Beyond the popular discourse, academics have e

Episode #0: A Brief Introduction To Merge Now

May 8th, 2019 14m 23s

Welcome to Merge Now, The Drive's new weekly podcast series featuring conversations with the people shaping the future of mobility technology. In this preview Ed Niedermeyer, Senior Editor for Mobility Technology at The Drive and host of Merge

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