The Road to Autonomy

Grayson Brulte

How would you feel if the transport truck beside you on the highway had no driver? Or the car passing beside you had no driver? Would it make a difference if the widespread deployment of autonomous trucks could ease supply chain problems almost overnight and that autonomous vehicles do not get distracted or speed? And would you feel better if you knew autonomous trucks and vehicles could reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent or more. Learn more from world's leading mobility experts on The Road to Autonomy®, an ahead-of-the-curve podcast hosted by Grayson Brulte.

  1. Tesla FSD Goes Coast to Coast in Canada With a Little Help

    -1 дн.

    Tesla FSD Goes Coast to Coast in Canada With a Little Help

    This week on Autonomy Signals, Grayson Brulte and Rob Grant are joined by David Moss, Devin Olsen, and Spencer to break down the first-ever FSD coast-to-coast drive across Canada with no interventions and what 3,782 miles exposed the limits of the Tesla's current consumer hardware. For their journey across The Great White North, the team used a Tesla Model 3 running FSD 14.3 on a journey that took them from British Columbia to Halifax, Nova Scotia with zero driving disengagements, across driving environment that the team has never experienced before. The route threw everything at the car. Two lane roads through the middle of nowhere, fifty mile stretches with no markings, construction flaggers holding stop signs, and Supercharger lots with no lines and no visual reference. The trip became a public stress test of the AI4 hardware suite. Over the six day journey, rain and road grime blinded the cameras and triggered occlusion warnings, throwing a red hands takeover as they pulled into a Supercharger. Across the full run, not a single inch was driven by hand. When the weather turned, the team stopped to clean cameras every fifteen minutes, the exact failure mode the Cybercab teardown answers with onboard air and liquid washers. Tesla FSD Supervised is the best Level 2+ system in the market today. As Tesla's robotaxi ambitions grow, the question now is whether camera only hardware can clear weather, occlusion, and the absence of self-cleaning to truly unlock FSD Unsupervised, or whether that threshold rests on AI5 and a washer equipped sensor stack as Tesla scales toward FSD version 15. Episode Chapters 00:00 Signal 1: 3,782 miles Across Canada 11:11 Camera Occlusion 17:04 What FSD Unsupervised Actually Requires 32:44 OMEGA's Take 45:09 Where's Next? 56:45 AUTNMY AI Follow The Road to Autonomy Indices -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, indices and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    57 мин.
  2. Parallel Systems Is Building the Internet of Freight

    -3 дн.

    Parallel Systems Is Building the Internet of Freight

    Matt Soule, Founder and CEO of Parallel Systems, joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how Parallel Systems is building the internet of freight by combing autonomy and rail. To date the company has raised nearly $100 million and secured Federal Railroad Administration clearance to test its autonomous rail vehicles on 160 miles of track in Georgia. Parallel’s technology integrates directly into back-office railroad dispatch networks, operating like air traffic control so vehicles respect unique track authority and never conflict with traditional freight trains. By replacing mechanical couplers with software-managed bumpers, platoons of up to 50 vehicles form and break apart on the move, splitting off to separate destinations or peeling away to keep grade crossings open. Today, Parallel is now ramping production of its commercial Gen 3 vehicle, which advances past the Gen 2 prototype by hauling up to 160,000 pounds at speeds over 60 mph on an innovative, low-cost bent steel chassis. T The electric propulsion system is built to revitalize unprofitable short-haul routes under 500 miles by lowering the lane density a railroad needs to justify service. Shifting heavy freight to rail gives shippers pricing stability against volatile diesel spikes, delivers granular tracking visibility, and creates a new ecosystem of local maintenance and remote supervisory jobs while decongesting highway traffic around major ports. To address a growing 300-vehicle backlog, Parallel is expanding manufacturing to a contract facility in Michigan while eyeing international expansion. Episode Chapters 00:00 Parallel Systems Raises $100m 2:33 Autonomous Rail 5:14 Reviving the Inland Ports, Jobs, and Manufacturing 10:37 Diesel Volatility 12:31 Gen 3 Vehicle 17:08 Why Rail 21:54 Commercial Operations 25:57 The Internet of Freight 31:54 What's Next 35:28 AUTNMY AI -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, Indices and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ Follow The Road to Autonomy Indices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    36 мин.
  3. Autonomy Signals: Why Is Mobileye Suddenly Building Its Own Robotaxi?

    18 июн.

    Autonomy Signals: Why Is Mobileye Suddenly Building Its Own Robotaxi?

    This week on Autonomy Signals, Grayson Brulte and Rob Grant discussed the launch of The Road to Autonomy Indices and break down Mobileye's pivot from licensor to robotaxi operator. The Road to Autonomy Indices score 38 companies on commercialization, deployment, and operational maturity across robotaxi, autonomous driving licensing, autonomous trucks, and delivery bots. Built with OMEGA on public and licensed data only, every update is cryptographically sealed to the RFC 3161 standard with an open-source verification layer, making the benchmark a transparent market barometer rather than a capital catalyst. On June 16th, Mobileye announced plans to launch a direct-to-consumer robotaxi service in a major US city in 2027, starting with roughly 100 vehicles and scaling to approximately 17,000 over five years. The press release named no city, disclosed no permits, and left no SEC filing trail, which is why the indices did not move on the headline. The open question is not whether Mobileye can build the technology, but whether its investors have the cash and the conviction to fund billions in below-the-line cost while standing toe-to-toe with Waymo and Tesla. Episode Chapters 00:00 Signal 1: The Road to Autonomy Indices Launch 23:44 Signal 2: Mobileye Pivots from Licensor to Robotaxi Operator 56:42 AUTNMY AI Follow The Road to Autonomy Indices -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    47 мин.
  4. How the U.S. Army Acquires Autonomy

    16 июн.

    How the U.S. Army Acquires Autonomy

    Zach Harrell, Director of Insights and Analysis, Army Applications Laboratory, joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how the U.S. Army acquires autonomy and brings cutting-edge technology into the hands of soldiers as fast as possible. The bottleneck in defense autonomy is rarely the technology. It is the acquisition process, the decades of requirements documents and program cycles that slow everything down. AAL exists to break that pattern, broadening the Army’s access to the commercial industrial base and capitalizing on the agility of small and non-traditional companies that have never worked with the Department of War. To do that, AAL experiments with process rather than hardware. Their DevX Marketplace lets any company upload a six-minute pitch video, no military ID required, and a passing submission satisfies the competition requirement for contracting, opening a door for the rest of the Army to potentially buy that technology without running a separate solicitation. Autonomous bridging is the proof of what that approach unlocks. Rather than building a new system, AAL backed an autonomy kit that retrofits the Army’s existing bridging equipment, letting sections steer and link themselves into position. The payoff in human terms, is a roughly 90% reduction in the soldiers exposed during one of the most dangerous tasks combat engineers perform. With the FY2027 budget requesting $54.6 billion dollars for autonomous warfare and Austin emerging as a defense tech hub, the future of Army technology will depend less on what gets built and more on the Army’s willingness to adopt it at the lowest burden and lowest cost, to the greatest effect. Episode Chapters 00:00 The AAL Mission: Getting Technology to Soldiers Faster 03:44 Inside the DevX Marketplace and the Six-Minute Pitch 07:41 Autonomous Bridging 12:17 The Connected Battlefield 16:01 Department of War $54.6 Billion Autonomy Budget 21:37 Learning from the Battlefield 29:19 Supply Chain Risk 31:57 How AAL Invests: Technical Risk, Military Utility, and Moonshots 40:55 How to Work With AAL 43:12 The Future of Technology in the U.S. Army 44:29 AUTNMY AI -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    44 мин.
  5. Autonomy Markets: Robotaxis Get the Hype, Autonomous Trucks May Get the Profits

    13 июн.

    Autonomy Markets: Robotaxis Get the Hype, Autonomous Trucks May Get the Profits

    This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss autonomous trucking reaching an inflection point, Waymo acquiring Apple's Arizona proving ground and Tesla filing for a robotaxi permit in Las Vegas. As Gatik expands its middle-mile freight operations with PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas, Volvo Autonomous Solutions told investors it is targeting $3 billion in autonomous transport revenue within five years through its transport-as-a-service (TaaS) business. On the robotaxi side of the business, Waymo acquired Apple's former 5,500-acre proving ground in Wittmann, Arizona for $220 million, a facility with a high-speed oval an hour from its Mesa up-fitting plant. Grayson views the acquisition as a signal that Waymo is preparing to test at highway speeds away from prying eyes, while Walt notes that satellite imagery sees everything. Before the segueing into the Foreign Autonomy Desk, Grayson and Walt debate Tesla's Clark County permit application for up to 5,000 robotaxis in a Las Vegas market with roughly 6,500 Uber drivers, Einride going public and Rivian beginning R2 deliveries. On the Foreign Autonomy Desk, Chinese robotaxi continues to accelerate into Europe with Pony.ai in Luxembourg and WeRide in Slovakia. Episode Chapters 00:00 Gatik Goes Driver-Out with PepsiCo 02:51 Volvo Targets $3 Billion in Autonomous Transport Revenue 06:54 Einride Goes Public 08:58 Tesla Files for Clark County Robotaxi Permit 11:52 Waymo Acquires Apple's Arizona Proving Ground 13:39 Wayve and Uber Open the UK Interest List 16:20 Baidu Added to the Pentagon's Designation List 18:31 Foreign Autonomy Desk 27:13 Nebius Launches a Physical AI Lab 28:14 Next Week -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    30 мин.
  6. Autonomy Signals: Tesla Bets Big on Las Vegas as Waymo Buys Apple’s Proving Grounds

    11 июн.

    Autonomy Signals: Tesla Bets Big on Las Vegas as Waymo Buys Apple’s Proving Grounds

    This week on Autonomy Signals, Grayson Brulte and Rob Grant discuss Tesla’s application to operate up to 5,000 robotaxis in Las Vegas, Waymo’s $220 million purchase of Apple’s former proving grounds, and Neolix’s partnership with Quickbot to solve the last 50 meters of autonomous delivery. On June 3rd, Tesla expanded their unsupervised robotaxi geofence to cover the entire 245 square mile Austin metropolitan area, even as its active fleet contracted to an estimated 20 to 25 vehicles. That same week, Tesla filed an application with the Nevada Transportation Authority for an Autonomous Vehicle Network Company permit to operate up to 5,000 robotaxis in Clark County within the next 12 months. With expanding service areas and a contracting physical fleet, Tesla is optimizing for a coverage narrative while software readiness remains the critical bottleneck to commercial scale, and the path to Las Vegas still runs through individual casino property agreements. Waymo purchased Apple’s former proving grounds in Wittmann, Arizona, originally the DaimlerChrysler proving grounds, for $220 million. The site is larger than Waymo’s existing California and Ohio testing grounds combined, featuring a 115 acre city course, a four mile high speed oval, and a dedicated freeway loop, and it sits roughly an hour from Waymo’s Mesa vehicle integration facility. By securing a closed loop validation pipeline adjacent to its manufacturing hub, Waymo is converting capital into validation velocity as it targets one million weekly rides by the end of the year and up to 20 additional cities by the end of 2026. Then there is Neolix, the Chinese autonomous delivery company, which announced a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Quickbot to co-deploy an end-to-end autonomous delivery solution. The integration pairs Neolix’s Level 4 logistics vehicles with Quickbot’s autonomous final mile delivery platform, which manages secure entry through doors and elevators without human intervention. Anchored in Singapore’s Punggol Digital District and timed to the country’s regulatory transition from sandbox to commercial operations, the alliance creates the first commercially viable human-free continuous delivery chain from road to door, with the Asia-Pacific and Middle East as the real targets. Episode Chapters 00:00 Signal 1: Tesla's Big Austin Expansion and Las Vegas Robotaxi Ambitions 22:47 Signal 2: Waymo Buys Apple's Former Proving Grounds 44:07 Signal 3: Neolix Partners with Quickbot to Solve the Last 50 Meters 56:42 AUTNMY AI -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    57 мин.

  7. 9 июн.

    Hertz Isn't Just a Rental Car Company Anymore

    Gil West, CEO of Hertz, joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss the launch of Oro Mobility and how a century of fleet operations is helping robotaxis to scale. A robotaxi parked is a depreciating asset, and the attention goes to the driving while the margin hides everywhere else. Cleaning, charging, maintaining, and positioning the vehicle is the part nobody wants and the part that decides the economics. Oro Mobility was built to own that work. It is an asset-heavy operating company sitting on Hertz infrastructure, 2,700 chargers, more than 11,000 service locations, and a footprint across roughly 160 countries. Oro owns and operates fleets, human-driven and autonomous, and supplies them turnkey to B2B partners including Uber and Nuro in a manner that Gil frames as the connective tissue between the demand aggregators, the technology companies, and the OEMs, the supply layer for the future of mobility. That positioning reshapes how the autonomy economy scales. A robotaxi company no longer has to build depots, charging, and a service network from scratch, something Mr. West says could take decades and billions of dollars to replicate. Over time, Hertz plans to hold robotaxis on its balance sheet as both owner and operator, sweat each asset through the peaks, service it through the valleys, and run the same footprint across rideshare, delivery, and autonomy. Episode Chapters 00:00 Hertz's Turnaround 1:18 Oro Mobility 4:43 Hertz's Infrastructure Advantage 13:29 Robotaxi Technicians 15:36 Robotaxis and Rideshare are Complementary 19:27 Infrastructure Permitting 22:26 Peaks and Valleys of Assets Ownership 25:47 Inspiration for Oro Mobility 28:28 Hertz as a Platform Business 30:28 Managing the Turnaround 34:21 Defining Success for Oro Mobility 35:22 Hertz Over the Next Century 37:03 AUTNMY AI -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    38 мин.
  8. Autonomy Markets: WeRide Is Catching Up to Waymo Globally

    6 июн.

    Autonomy Markets: WeRide Is Catching Up to Waymo Globally

    This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss WeRide trying to catch up to Waymo globally, Waymo preparing to deploy Chinese-made robotaxis in Texas and the CEO of FedEx Freight's open embracement of autonomous trucking. As WeRide and Uber continue to expand throughout Europe and the Middle East together, Waymo continues to work towards deploying the Chinese-made Zeekr robotaxis now called the Ojai, with data suggesting they are now in Texas, in a politically risky move. FedEx Freight CEO John Smith declared autonomous trucks ready for prime time, a signal Grayson reads alongside Amazon entering the freight business and Uber selling down another stake in Aurora. With Amazon running one of the most sophisticated freight networks in the world and FedEx now a standalone public company, the pressure on Uber Freight is building. Wrapping up the conversation, Grayson and Walt Uber's continued European push by partnering with Autobrains on a Munich robotaxi service pending regulatory approval, and Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed Humain partnered with NVIDIA to deploy robotaxis in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Episode Chapters 00:00 SpaceX IPO 3:53 WeRide and Uber Expand Across Europe 7:39 Waymo Registers 45 Zeekrs in Texas 10:30 Waymo's New Tampa Depot 15:36 Uber Sells Down Its Aurora Stake 16:33 Why Amazon Hasn't Bought an Autonomous Trucking Company? 23:04 Avride Robotaxis in Texas 25:26 Serve Robotics Moves Into Laundry 26:29 Ferrari Rules Out Autonomy 28:56 Foreign Autonomy Desk 30:27 Next Week -------- About The Road to Autonomy The Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™. Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth. Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next. Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletter: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/ae/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    31 мин.
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How would you feel if the transport truck beside you on the highway had no driver? Or the car passing beside you had no driver? Would it make a difference if the widespread deployment of autonomous trucks could ease supply chain problems almost overnight and that autonomous vehicles do not get distracted or speed? And would you feel better if you knew autonomous trucks and vehicles could reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent or more. Learn more from world's leading mobility experts on The Road to Autonomy®, an ahead-of-the-curve podcast hosted by Grayson Brulte.

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