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Autonomy Insiders
Autonomy Insiders is the weekly podcast for people who need a clear view of autonomous driving, not recycled takes.
Each episode features interviews with leaders across the autonomy ecosystem: robotaxi operators, OEMs, platform players, regulators, and investors.
We go deep on Europe and China, markets that are often under-covered, and we always connect back to the US so you can compare playbooks.
We talk about what changes outcomes: deployment constraints, unit economics, partnership strategy…
Episodes
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From Rental Cars to Robotaxis: Hertz’s Bet on Fleet Operations | Doria Holbrook, CEO Oro Mobility
Every robotaxi still has to be charged, cleaned, repaired and financed. Hertz built a separate company to do that work, and it starts with human drivers. Doria…
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Auve Tech’s Driverless Shuttle Playbook for Airports and Beyond | Taavi Rõivas
Robotaxis get the billions. But driverless shuttles on airports and private campuses may scale first, because the owner of the ground can say yes before the…
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Europe’s Own Path to Autonomous Mobility | Lukas Neckermann
Is Europe hopelessly behind in autonomous driving, or should it skip the race altogether? Lukas Neckermann thinks both camps are wrong. If the driving software…
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Inside Germany's Autonomous Driving Law: The Hurdle Nobody Has Cleared
Germany wrote the world's first legal framework for driverless commercial service in 2021. Five years later, no operator holds a regular Level 4 approval. Why?…
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Grab's Autonomous Vehicle Playbook for Singapore and Southeast Asia | Dominic Ong, GM Autonomous
Southeast Asia should be the last place AV's arrive. Dense, improvised traffic, monsoon rain and some of the cheapest driver labor in any middle-income region…
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The UK's Autonomous Vehicle Permit Process Explained
London's first robotaxi service runs on the Uber app with a safety driver still behind the wheel. Here is every step a company must clear before the UK lets it…
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beti: The French AV Operator Behind WeRide's First European Robobus | Benjamin Beaudet, CEO beti
Europe's first fully driverless commercial robobus runs in France. beti is a French operator of automated mobility networks, and a spin-off from Bertolami, a…
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Robot Pit Stops for Robotaxis | George Kalligeros, CEO Aseon Labs
Everyone measures robotaxi progress in miles driven. Almost nobody measures the hours the vehicle spends not driving. George Kalligeros, co-founder and CEO of…
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France's Driverless Transport Rules, Explained by the Assessor
France already has a working legal framework for approving driverless public transport. Most of the industry has never heard of it. Aryldo Russo of GESTE…
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How WeRide Built a Global Robotaxi Business in 9 Years | Tony Han, CEO WeRide
WeRide CEO Tony Han on where robotaxis actually break even, how the Uber partnership works in Abu Dhabi, and why Europe could be profitable from day one. Most…
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The Hidden Human Layer Making Autonomous Vehicles Scalable | Nick Allen, TaskUs
This video is sponsored by TaskUS. Autonomous fleets do not scale on software alone. The hidden advantage is the human layer and Nick Allen reveals how TaskUs…
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The Robotaxi Industry's Real Bottleneck Is Not AI. It's the Curb
Everyone in autonomous driving argues about sensors, foundation models and remote assistance ratios. Almost nobody argues about the last ten meters. Bern…
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Public Trust in Autonomous Vehicles: What Europeans Actually Fear
Europe's autonomous vehicle problem is not the technology. It is that almost nobody outside the industry knows what is coming. Guido Di Pasquale, Managing…
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EU Type Approval Explained: How Autonomous Vehicles Get Certified for European Roads
Certification, type approval, homologation. Not the sexiest words in autonomous driving, but arguably the most decisive ones for whether AVs ever reach…
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From AV Pilot to Public Service: What It Really Takes to Operate Autonomous Vehicles in Europe
Most conversations about autonomous driving stop at the vehicle: the sensors, the AI, the next demo. But once an autonomous service carries real passengers in…
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Agentic AI for Robotaxis: Inside Autobrains
The autonomous driving industry has mostly converged on one architecture: a single, monolithic end-to-end model trained to handle the entire driving task. Igal…
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Designing Driverless Cars for Everyone (Not Just Early Adopters)
Driverless cars can pass every safety test and still lose the passenger — because trust, not technology, decides whether robotaxis actually scale. Dr. Clare…
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European Autonomous Driving: Inside Niulinx and the Robosharing Model
Europe has no autonomous driving champion. Luca Foresti wants to change that, without copying the American robotaxi. Daniel sits down with Luca Foresti, CEO…
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The EU's "Now or Never" Moment on Autonomous Vehicles, Pierfrancesco Maran, Member of EU Parliament
Almost nobody in Brussels is against autonomous driving. That is not the problem. The problem is that most policymakers treat it as a distant future, not a…
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What Waymo's Data Reveals About Who Actually Rides Robotaxis
Everyone in autonomous driving asks when the technology will work. William "Billy" Riggs asks the harder question: what happens after it does, when you have to…
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Inside Loxo: Driverless Delivery Vans in Europe
Robotaxis dominate the autonomous driving conversation. Urban goods delivery rarely gets mentioned. Yet Europe has roughly 30 million light commercial vehicles…
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Hands-Free Charging for Robotaxi Fleets: The Hidden Layer That Makes Robotaxis Profitable
Everyone in autonomous driving argues about software stacks, sensors, and miles driven. Almost nobody talks about what happens when the robotaxi pulls into the…
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Is the Uber-Waymo Partnership Coming to an End?
The Uber-Waymo partnership has shifted from strategic alliance to transactional relationship. And transactional relationships have shorter expiration dates…
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How Apollo Is Building the Insurance Layer for Autonomous Vehicles
You can build the safest autonomous vehicle in the world, but without insurance, it doesn't go on the road. In Episode 10 of Autonomy Insiders, host Daniel…
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Flexdrive: Lyft's Secret Weapon in Autonomous Mobility
When people talk about Lyft's autonomous strategy, the conversation usually starts and ends with Waymo. Underneath that headline sits FlexDrive, Lyft's wholly…
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Germany's Only Full-Stack Level 4 AV Startup: Inside MOTOR Ai
Germany has one company building a full Level 4 autonomous driving stack from scratch. Not an ADAS feature. Not a highway assist. A complete autonomous driver…
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AV Charging Infrastructure: How Terawatt Is Building the Physical Layer Autonomous Fleets Need
Everyone talks about the sensors, the software, and the regulation behind autonomous vehicles. But almost nobody talks about where these fleets actually…
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Inside MOIA: Autonomous Turnkey Solution for Europe
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Rainer Becker, Director of Business Development at MOIA, the autonomous mobility arm of VW, to unpack how MOIA is…
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Baidu Apollo Robotaxis in Switzerland: Inside PostAuto's AmiGo Project
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Martin Neubauer, Head of Autonomous Mobility at PostAuto AG, to unpack how Switzerland's largest public transport…
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Autonomous Driving in Switzerland: Regulation, Pilots, and Why Chinese Players Chose Swiss Roads
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Oliver Nahon, Director of Operations at the Swiss Association for Autonomous Mobility (SAAM), to break down what's…
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$41 Billion in Physical AI: What Investors Need to Know About Robotaxis & Humanoid Robots
AI is leaving the screen and entering the real world. In this episode, Martyn Briggs, Director at Bank of America Global Research, breaks down what "Physical…
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Autonomous Driving Chips: Tesla, Xpeng, Rivian and the In-House Revolution
Most automakers are racing to master the most critical component of autonomous driving: the semiconductor. Augustin Friedel, Associated Partner at MHP and an…
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Inside Bolt's Autonomous Strategy: 100K Robotaxis for Europe's Streets
Charlotte Eisner, Head of Commercialization and Partnerships at Bolt, joined Daniel Abreu Marques on Autonomy Insiders to discuss Bolt's autonomous strategy…
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Welcome to Autonomy Insiders
Welcome to Autonomy Insiders! Autonomy Insiders goes behind the headlines of the autonomous vehicle industry. Your Host Daniel Abreu Marques talks to the…