AI in Automotive
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe AI in Automotive podcast is a platform for conversations about the rapidly growing role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the automotive and mobility industries. Host Jayesh Jagasia speaks to experts in the domain for free-wheeling conversations on how AI is shaping the future of the automotive industry.
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AI in Automotive - #406 - Alex Roy, Founder - Johnson & Roy Advisors, Autonocast, The Drive, Human Driving Association
December 21, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBTill a few weeks back, Cruise was considered one of the big three of autonomous general driving. It was licensed to run a robotaxi service in San Francisco, and my LinkedIn feed was full of folks gushing over the magical experience of being driven around in a car without a driver. Then the proverbial shit hit the fan. One of Cruise’s robotaxis got caught in a classic edge case, with a road user who was hit by another vehicle, falling in its path. So far so bad, but then things got worse. I...
AI in Automotive - #405 - Andrew Fleury, CEO Luna Systems and Chris Tingley, CEO EVWare
December 14, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBSince the beginning of time, cities have been incredibly important to civilization. Today, the World Bank estimates that cities contribute 80% of global GDP. Cities are central to our growth and prosperity, but every single major city in the world is facing challenges ranging from poor air quality to creaking infrastructure. So how do cities evolve to prepare for the future? And what role does AI play in this evolution? On this unique episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, I invited the...
AI in Automotive - #404 - David Hallac - CEO, Viaduct
December 01, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBVehicle quality issues that lead to recalls and lawsuits cost automotive OEMs tens of billions of dollars in cost and lost revenue each year. Given the explosion of connected vehicle data, one might expect that this data could be leveraged to reduce this cost. Things are rarely that straightforward. Why is that? I invited David Hallac, CEO of Viaduct to the AI in Automotive Podcast to find out more. David’s 5-year old startup finds patterns and relationships amongst billions of connected ve...
AI in Automotive - #403 - Daniel Langkilde - CEO, Kognic
November 02, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBAutonomous Driving is a big enough paradigm shift. But after years of research and billions of dollars spent trying to get cars to drive themselves, perhaps it is time for a paradigm shift within a paradigm shift. What might this look like? Daniel Langkilde, CEO of Kognic joins me on the AI in Automotive Podcast to discuss exactly this. Daniel and I talk about the current approach to autonomy, which involves breaking down a very complex problem into its components - perception, prediction a...
AI in Automotive - #402 - Ben Rathaus - VP AI and Perception, Arbe Robotics
October 23, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBRadars have been evolving at a really rapid clip, helped in no small part by innovative companies like Arbe Robotics. On today’s episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, I am talking to Ben Rathaus, VP of AI and Perception at Arbe. Ben talks us through the history of radars, and how and why they found their way onto cars. We discuss how Arbe’s silicon and software is creating an order of magnitude improvement in the resolution and performance of automotive grade radars. We talk about the co...
AI in Automotive - #401 - Todd Thomas - Chief Revenue Officer, AiDEN Automotive
October 05, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBConnected cars have been around for a while, but in-car services have strangely not really taken off. I learnt in my chat with Todd Thomas, Chief Revenue Officer at AiDEN Auto that there’s a good reason. Or four. Todd spoke to me about the evolution of the modern car to become a more mature connected device from its current state, and in the process we unearthed some real gems of insight. After today’s chat with Todd, I have a much better understanding of what connected vehicles 2.0 might ...
AI in Automotive - #305 - Gary Brotman - CEO, Secondmind
July 03, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBDesigning a car is hard. 🚙 🏎️ 🏁 It involves solving a series of multi-dimensional problems under a variety of constraints. I am oversimplifying here, but a problem with 8 dimensions and 5 values for each dimension will have 390,625 combinations to be experimented with. Real-world problems are usually way more complex, and testing every unique combination of inputs in an experiment is often not viable. So what is the solution, and what role does AI play? Gary Brotman, CEO of Secondmind, jo...
AI in Automotive - #304 - Bibhrajit Halder - Founder & CEO, SafeAI
June 15, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBHave you ever thought about how autonomy came to be? What were the origins of the idea of autonomous vehicles? Have you ever wondered what is next for autonomy, and how will this space evolve in the future? Well, wonder no more. On this episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, I am delighted to host an OG member of the autonomy gang, whose connection with autonomous driving goes way back to the heady days of the DARPA Grand challenge almost two decades ago. Bibhrajit Halder, Founder & CEO...
AI in Automotive - #303 - Jorit Schmelzle - CEO, Peregrine Technologies
June 05, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBIn the world of autonomous driving, high-compute GPUs are all the rage. So I was incredibly delighted to learn of a company that is taking a very counter-intuitive approach to the perception stack. These guys have identified a number of use cases that do not require the 100% accuracy that autonomous driving demands, and are focused on making their vision perception stack work on smartphones you can buy for a hundred dollars. In this episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, I am pleased to h...
AI in Automotive - #302 - Paul Drysch - CEO, PreAct Technologies
May 23, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBLiDARs are an important piece of the autonomous driving and ADAS puzzle. While they boast impressive resolution and frame rates, they have also built a reputation for being big, bulky and expensive. Can there be another way? Paul Drysch, CEO of PreAct Technologies certainly thinks so. PreAct has been working behind the scenes for a number of years to develop their short-range LiDAR which aims to deliver all the functionality of a LiDAR at short distances while addressing the biggest drawbac...
AI in Automotive - #301 - Marc Bolitho - CEO, Recogni
May 05, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBIf you, like me, grew up using Windows 3.1, then you are familiar with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. One of the reasons for that blue screen - in simple terms - was that the computer had run out of resources to run all the tasks that were being demanded of it. I have news for you - that reality may be coming to your car sooner than you think. We are putting increasing amounts of computational demands on the modern vehicle. The increasing number of sensors, the increasing resolution of ...
AI in Automotive - #207 - Leaf Jiang - CEO, NODAR
March 15, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBThere has been a lot of talk recently about vision versus LiDARs and RADARs. I hosted Leaf Jiang, CEO of a company called NODAR to learn more about the advantages and limitations of each technology, and how NODAR's own technology overcomes them. Their name is a nice play on the fact that their product is not RADAR or LiDAR, but in fact, uses vision to achieve resolution and depth perception better than either of them. Instead of relying on machine learning models to interpret the feed from ...
#206 - Hemant Sikaria - CEO & Co-founder, Sibros
March 02, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBFancy waking up one fine day to find that your car, much like your smartphone, now has a better interface on the infotainment touchscreen, or that annoying niggle that was draining your battery has magically been resolved? The essence of software-defined vehicles is their ability to keep getting better over time. A lot needs to happen behind the scenes, for this to work. How is data from a fleet of vehicles moved into the cloud? How do engineers use this data to identify patterns and impro...
#205 - Matt Anderson, Director of Business Development, SoundHound
February 16, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBButtons and physical interfaces disappearing from your car is now an inevitability. That said, we certainly can’t be fumbling with a touchscreen to change the fan speed or switch the radio station. There has to be a better way. That’s what makes me very bullish about voice as the primary human-machine interface in the modern car. We have all gotten used to speaking to our smartphones and smart speakers, and getting a lot done - typing out an email, playing your favourite 60s rock album and ...
#204 - Anshuman Saxena - Head of AD/ADAS, Qualcomm Technologies
February 02, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBElectric Vehicles might look and drive like normal cars, but scratch beneath the surface and you will realise that they are fundamentally different at an architectural level. With the modern car being so much more than merely its mechanicals, I learnt that digital architecture in cars is a thing. The hardware - system on chip, or SoCs, processors and screens, combined with the software - the operating system, middleware and applications bring to life so many elements of the modern car that...
#203 - Sarah Larner - EVP, Strategy & Innovation, Wejo
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBConnected vehicles to me, for the longest time meant a car that has a SIM card and is connected to the Internet as an IoT device. But connected vehicles are, and should be, so much more than that. In a world where vehicles are able to communicate with each other, with other participants on the road and with infrastructure, the possibilities that can unlock are endless. So what is coming in the way of that happening? Technology? Policy? Universal standards? What role can startups, private c...
#202 - Andres Milioto - Senior Vision Engineer, Scythe Robotics
January 04, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBWhat would you define as automotive? Sure there are the cars, motorbikes, vans, trucks and so on. But what about lawn mowers? We are stretching the definition of automotive in this edition of the AI in Automotive Podcast. And you will see why. Today we are speaking to Andres Milioto, a Senior Vision Engineer at Scythe Robotics. This company has developed an all-electric, fully-autonomous commercial mower, which, needless to say, uses machine learning extensively, primarily for perception. ...
#201 - Sarah Tatsis - SVP, IVY Platform Development at BlackBerry
December 21, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBOver ten years ago, an idea that captured our imagination was that software is eating the world. Well, software may not have eaten the automobile, but it is certainly transforming it in very profound ways. The modern car is incredibly complex - not just from a hardware perspective, but also from a software point of view. Today’s software-defined vehicle is made up of numerous subsystems, each run by its own code; hundreds of sensors generating tonnes of data every second; and a number of v...
Season 2 Trailer
December 20, 2022 11:00 - 2 minutes - 1.71 MBIt has been just over three years since I started the AI in Automotive Podcast. With all of the interesting ways in which artificial intelligence and machine learning are shaping the future of the automotive and mobility industries, I am happy to have hosted quality conversations exploring this theme further. My intention with the AI in Automotive Podcast was - and continues to be - to invite interesting people doing interesting things with AI in the automotive industry, and engage them in...
#120 - Koosha Kaveh - CEO, Imperium Drive
September 01, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBA number of companies are trying to crack the autonomous driving puzzle, and a variety of approaches have evolved. Some companies are taking a software-first approach, building an AD software stack that can work on any hardware environment. Others are taking a hardware-first approach, creating a sensor and hardware environment that can adopt any software stack. Others still are creating a ‘walled-garden’ with software and hardware designed in close conjunction, allowing each to work only wit...
#119 - Alex Barth - VP Automotive & Mobility, Mapbox
August 05, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBThe digital screens in the car are the latest battleground in the battle for the driver’s attention. The main competitor? The mobile phone. Each time you choose to connect your smartphone to your car’s infotainment system using CarPlay or Android Auto, the mobile phone wins. The car’s digital surfaces are reduced to dumb screens that mirror the phone’s apps and use the phone’s processing power. Your usage data and analytics are no longer accessible to the car maker, putting them at a signi...
#118 - Richard Barlow - Founder & CEO, wejo
May 19, 2022 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB90% of all the data in the world was generated in the last 2 years. I have read this statistic in a news report from 2012, and a news report from 2019 and a news report from 2021. If this statement is true every year, you can begin to imagine the rate at which data generation and use is expanding. Actually that number is so big, you probably can’t imagine it. As someone famous once remarked: with great data comes great responsibility. Infinite amounts of data raise questions about the owne...
#117 - Dr Richard Ahlfeld - CEO, Monolith AI
May 12, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBAutomotive product development is not just incredibly expensive, but also an extraordinarily complex process. Everything you see on a production vehicle is, at the end of the day, the result of hundreds of tug-of-war contests. Design and cost, manufacturability and serviceability, power and weight. The list goes on. Dozens of teams with hundreds of engineers pursuing conflicting design objectives, but eventually finding an optimum through a series of very difficult trade-offs. Any benefit a...
#116 - David Sharp - Head of Autonomous Mobility, Ocado Technology
April 17, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, we are following the incredible journey of Ocado from a retailer to a global technology business that offers a cutting-edge technology platform to other retailers. We talk to David Sharp, Head of Head of Autonomous Mobility at Ocado Technology, and he talks to us about their journey - bold and audacious in more ways than one. Three things really stood out for me from this very enlightening conversation with David. One, the way Ocado experime...
#115 - Marc Fredman - Chief Strategy Officer, CCC Intelligent Solutions
December 08, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBHave you ever thought about all the things that go on behind the scenes when you file an insurance claim for your car? Probably not. And that’s a good thing, because if you did have to think about the complexity that lies behind, you would not be a happy customer. The reality, however, is that every insurance claim triggers hundreds of processes and transactions that work in harmony to verify and pay out your claim. The fascinating thing is that AI is starting to play an increasingly influe...
#114 - Yonatan Geifman - Co-founder & CEO, Deci
July 28, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIf Elon Musk says something is hard, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is bloody hard. Automotive applications are some of the toughest, most unforgiving environments to deploy AI in. Most AI applications in automotive are mission critical - they just can’t go wrong. This requires that all the input they process is of a very high resolution or quality. They also need to operate in real-time, often perceive the environment around them and respond to it in a matter of milliseconds. Lastly...
#113 - Orr Danon - CEO, Hailo Technologies
July 08, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBAI-powered ADAS and AD systems are getting more complex with every iteration. New sensors, higher resolution cameras and increasingly sophisticated deep learning algorithms have substantial computational requirements. Traditionally, they have relied on compute resources in the cloud. But as systems get more advanced, relying on the cloud alone carries significant risk to systems that are supposed to work in real time under significant cost, space and power constraints. So how do we deal with...
#112 - Joel Gibson - EVP of Automotive, Swift Navigation
June 23, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBGPS, or the Global Positioning System, is now ubiquitous as a way for us to pinpoint our location anywhere in the world, plot that location on a reference, often a map, and know where we are. Did you know, however, that even some advanced GPS systems can only deliver an accuracy of about 25 cm. This level of precision, while sufficient for you and I, just does not cut it for a vehicle equipped with advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving features. Precise location data is absolute...
#111 - Leslie Nooteboom - Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Humanising Autonomy
April 07, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBData is the lifeblood of Artificial Intelligence. Quite simply, the better and richer the quality of data, the more capable the algorithm. Now this applies to both, the training data available to train the algorithm, but importantly, also the input data that is available for the algorithm to do its job. Take the case of autonomous vehicles or advanced driver assistance systems. These systems rely on the eyes - cameras, LIDARs and RADARs - to see the environment around the vehicle. The input...
#110 - Arun Kumar - Managing Director, AlixPartners
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBSome sources estimate that over 500 billion dollars have been invested already in the quest for full autonomous driving, and an equal amount is likely to be invested over the next few years. Everyone is in this race - from tech companies, VCs and PE funds, sovereign wealth funds, neo manufacturers and traditional automotive industry players - OEMs and large Tier 1 suppliers. If you are in the automotive A-list, you are working on an AV. Are we witnessing an AV Arms Race? On this episode ...
#109 - Venkat Sreeram - Co-founder, ClearQuote
October 29, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Venkat Sreeram, who shares his story and journey with us. Venkat is an all-out automotive guy and a serial entrepreneur. He shares his very inspiring entrepreneurial journey with us, and talks about what led to him starting his latest venture, ClearQuote. ClearQuote is using AI and computer vision to instantly identify and assess the damage on any vehicle. The platform is designed to benefit dealers, mobility providers and insurance companie...
#108 - Chris Van Dan Elzen - Vice President, Veoneer
September 21, 2020 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBWe suffer a million and a half fatalities on the roads every year. The number of people who are injured in road traffic incidents is orders of magnitude higher. These numbers are staggering. But also very, very avoidable. Today we are talking to Chris Van Dan Elzen. Chris is a Vice President at Veoneer, a global leader in automotive technology. Veoneer is putting its considerable resources behind a bold and noble cause - halving the number of traffic fatalities and injuries. How, you say?...
#107 - Noam Maital - CEO, Waycare Technologies
July 07, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBLike me, you’ve probably found yourself sitting in traffic, surrounded by vehicles of every size and shape, wondering why there isn’t a better way yet. The good news is that there is. In this episode of the AI in Automotive Podcast, we are speaking to Noam Maital, CEO of Waycare Technologies, a fabulous company that I came across recently, that uses AI to solve a very real problem - that of traffic management and crash fatalities. company that provides solutions for a host of traffic manage...
#106 - Reinhard Stolle - VP Engineering, AID Autonomous Intelligent Driving
March 24, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBWhy are Autonomous Vehicles a big deal? How far are they from reality, and what is the most likely path they will take to market? What sort of social, economic and cultural impact might they bring with them? We explore these themes in our conversation with Dr Reinhard Stolle. Reinhard is Vice President of Engineering at Autonomous Intelligent Driving, or AID. Reinhard has a wealth of experience in the automotive technology and innovation areas, and for over 15 years, has played leadership ...
#105 - Florian Baumann - CTO, Dell Technologies (Automotive & AI)
January 13, 2020 17:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBAutonomous driving is widely considered to be one of the toughest problems to solve, and whilst there have been some blips on the way, the technology is evolving rapidly. This is thanks mainly to the rapid hardware and software advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Traditional automotive brands, large automotive suppliers, hundreds of autonomous driving startups powered by billions of dollars of venture capital; all of them are locked in a fascinating race to make safe and relia...
#104 - Paul Eichenberg - Chief Strategist - Part 2
November 01, 2019 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBIn Part 1 of my conversation with Paul Eichenberg, Chief Strategist at Paul Eichenberg Strategic Consulting, we spoke about how data and technology are redrawing the traditional automotive landscape, and powering the rise of a new generation of industry participants. In Part 2, we talk about talent wars, car ownership in the age of data, and how an interesting application of AI is making our cities smarter and safer. AI in Automotive Podcast
#103 - Paul Eichenberg - Chief Strategist - Part 1
October 30, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBData and technology are great levellers. The power of data and AI is redrawing the automotive industry landscape, dramatically altering relationships and equations between OEMs and their suppliers. AI is also creating a new generation of industry players - from startups to consumer electronics giants. What does the tech-driven redrawing of the auto industry landscape mean for traditional players in the industry? How does the rise of AI and related technologies change the equation between c...
#102 - Tom Wood - CEO, Cazana - Part 2
October 23, 2019 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThe power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning presents a huge opportunity to make vehicle valuations more accurate and more dynamic. Cazana is a company that is doing just that. In part 1 of the interview with Tom Wood, CEO of Cazana, we spoke about how Cazana uses AI to solve a problem that is as old as the industry itself, and how its solution benefits dealers, OEMs, insurers and lenders. In part 2, we dig deeper into the value of data, the risk of biases, and finally, what t...
#101 - Tom Wood - CEO, Cazana - Part 1
October 23, 2019 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBThe power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning presents a huge opportunity to make vehicle valuations more accurate and more dynamic. Cazana is a company that is doing just that. In part 1 of the interview with Tom Wood, CEO of Cazana, we talk about how Cazana uses AI to solve a problem that is as old as the industry itself, and how its solution benefits dealers, OEMs, insurers and lenders. AI in Automotive Podcast
AI in Automotive Podcast Trailer
October 12, 2019 19:00 - 2 minutes - 1.55 MBAll around the world, hundreds of companies, big and small, are using AI technologies to bring an unprecedented level of innovation and disruption to the automotive industry. I am Jayesh Jagasia, and I host the AI in Automotive podcast. This is a platform for conversations about the rapidly growing role of AI in the automotive and mobility industries. Join me as I host experts in the domain to learn more about how AI is shaping the future of the automotive and mobility industries. AI in ...