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Stay at home and listen to these 5 podcasts on the future of mobility
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Hopefully, this blithe period, you’ll have time to relax, unwind, and maybe even listen to a podcast or two.
If you’re into all things advancement tech, let us lend a allowance hand and offer some suggestions for you to check out.
1. The Autonocast
If EVs, self-driving vehicles, and freedom get your motor running, then you should check out the Autonocast
It’s a weekly show that discusses some of the industry‘s most important topics, and is hosted by TechCrunch senior anchorman Kirsten Korosec, TheDrive’s Alex Roy, and Ed Niedermeyer who is the comms administrator at non-profit PAVE (Partners for Automated Vehicle Education).
The Autonocast has ahead discussed Tesla’s self-driving technology, women in freedom and AI bias, and autonowashing.
A claimed admired adventure was when the Autonocast interviewed human-machine alternation researcher and friend of SHIFT Liza Dixon about her work into autonowashing.
2. The War on Cars
Now, this might sound a bit off-piste for a advertisement that focuses predominantly on cars and automatic transport, but hear me out.
We accept that there should be options, and those options should be chosen mindfully. Cars are great and have their uses, but so do trains, planes, and bicycles.
The War on Cars podcast takes a look at the effect cars are having on our roads, cities, and affection of life. As cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen show, car-free roads can work and can make cities more adorable to live in.
Really, this podcast is about arduous the normative belief that active a car is the best form of carriage for all situations.
A great starting point is this episode: America’s love affair with cars. It makes a potted history of how the US got so captivated up in a world where anybody to drive.
3. The Advancement Podcast
Those two podcasts were kind of specific, so let’s zoom out a little and take a look at The Advancement Podcast. As its name suggests, it’s a more of a accepted look at the field of carriage and travel tech, with a specific focus on the US.
On the podcast, hosts have spoken to industry names from the likes of Nuro, Waymo, Segway-Ninebot, and Spin.
The hosts have a accomplishments in busline policy, governance, and action and actively look to deconstruct these in afterward of compassionate how new carriage tech will impact our societies.
One of my admired episodes was where the Advancement Podcast took a look at Sweden’s access to free vehicles. Much of the chat of self-driving focuses on the US, it’s an important admonition this is a global abnormality and every ability has a altered approach.
4. The Swifty Podcast
If you’re afterward the chat surrounding micromobility, in accurate escooters, then the Swifty Podcast is for you.
Presented by bedmate and wife team and founders of scooter aggregation Swifty Scooters, Jason and Camilla Iftakhar, the Swifty Podcast dissects aggregate to do with the world of stand-on two-wheeled transport.
In antecedent episodes Jason and Camilla have covered how their supply chain works, how they design their scooters, and how legislation and basement impacts their use and uptake. Conversations go into a hasty amount of detail.
It’s all absolutely unscripted, but after alert to a bunch of episodes myself, I can say that it provides a unique window into the challenges of bringing new modes of claimed carriage to life.
A claimed highlight was adventure #18, appear in August. It looked at how COVID-19 has afflicted the UK escooter market and how the areas the nation’s trials of the tech are likely to fail and succeed.
5. BCG: Podcasts on the Future of Mobility
If you’re not in the game of big business and accumulated strategy, you might not know BCG, or Boston Consulting Group to give it its full name.
BCG is a business action consulting firm, and is the hive mind behind the Boston Matrix, which is used by firms to accept and strategize their artefact line up. The abstraction is even taught in universities across the land.
The business world is going to change badly as we switch to electric cars, free vehicles, and new models of shared ownership, so it’s not hasty a firm like BCG is befitting an eye on things.
In short, the big wigs at BCG know how the automotive industry works, and in this podcast industry experts analyze the impact that these new technologies will have. If you’re deep into the futurism of transport, get this podcast into your ear holes.
BONUS: Car Talk
Car Talk on NPR is an complete must-listen podcast whether you’re a car nerd or not. Props to my aide Georgina for accepting me on to this one.
Car Talk was advertisement on NPR from the late 1970s through to 2012. Now, re-cuts of aboriginal episodes are appear as podcasts, under the “Best of Car Talk” moniker.
It’s hosted by brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, AKA “Click and Clack, the tappet brothers.” After a long career as car mechanics, they took to the airwaves to help callers with their own car troubles, and do so always in amusing fashion.
So it might not be about the future of mobility, but I can agreement that it’ll bring a smile to your face.
Appear December 28, 2020 — 15:00 UTC
