Stay ConnectedNo Parking is a podcast about self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence, and how technology will actually change our daily lives. Tune in to two friends — outlaw rally racer Alex Roy and roboticist Bryan Salesky — for honest conversations about how it all works and what’s coming next.
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Josh McManus, Chief Strategy Officer at Civic Entertainment Group, believes '“city” is a verb instead of a noun. Hear he and Alex Roy wax poetic on trust, safety, intellectualism, and the legend of Bucky Fuller, plus the folly of zero-sum thinking and why it’s critical you never fall for your own BS. From the Knight Foundation to leading downtown Detroit’s revitalization with Dan Gilbert and bringing Ford Motor Company into the future, McManus has been at the helm of making cities more enjoyable for the folks who actually live and work in them for his entire career.
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Alex & Bryan discuss woodworking, trust, and quality furniture, then visit an entrepreneur who really tells it like it is: James Beard-award winning chef Michael Schwartz. They dine at his flagship restaurant, Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, and talk to Schwartz about his restaurant’s place in the history of Miami’s Design District. But Michael does more than just manage restaurants, he owns a thriving catering business and runs programs to increase access to healthy food for school children. Bryan hatches a plan for how AVs can help streamline all this work.
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Some look at humanoid robots and only see Skynet, but Agility Robotics is building increasingly person-like machines with one goal: to serve mankind. From the one-legged Thumper to a two-armed, two-legged delivery robot named Digit, Founder Damion Shelton has long been at the cutting edge of robots meant to do our bidding. Damion, Bryan and Alex geek out about how to make these robots actually work, where we may see them used in the future, and how technology research funding is really used. Bryan and Damion agree there’s only one way to build smart, successful AI—but what does their consensus mean for the future of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars?
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The soundtrack of our lives is the music we listen to while driving. How will autonomous vehicles change that experience? Will we really be able to attend a concert virtually from the comfort of our own vehicle? In 5 years, 10 years 20 years? Barak Moffitt, Executive Vice President of Content Strategy & Operations for Universal Music Group, joins us to talk about Dolby Atmos, podcasting, and how to put augmented reality and virtual reality in motion. Plus Alex pitches his next business idea for creating the ultimate narrative music experience to Universal, and we learn just how far the music industry plans to take content creation in order to captivate the ever-shrinking attention spans of modern-day listeners.
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Who better to debate autonomous vehicles with Alex Roy than Dr. Mark Rosekind, former head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Fatigue Countermeasures at NASA. Now he’s the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, and still one of the most opinionated and colorful characters in American transportation. Hear how he revolutionized sleep for astronauts and investigated devastating accidents, plus why he’s now a big proponent for autonomous vehicles in cities.
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The best way to make American great is to equip our most talented kids with the tools to build the next generation of technology. The problem? Many public schools lack computer science classes. Steel City Codes founders Akshana Dassanaike-Perera, Joshua Zhou & Claire Shao have a solution: a coding-focused educational nonprofit led by kids, for kids. These teenage trailblazers join Alex and Bryan to talk about teaching Python to 9 year olds, the challenges and opportunities they face in the STEM education system, the secret to building an educational program kids actually enjoy, and their plans for future tech industry domination.
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He led WIRED Magazine from 2001 to 2012, making the internet cool and mainstream and even coined the term “The Long Tail.” Now Chris Anderson is the Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics, DIY Drones and DIY Robocars, an autonomous racing series anyone can afford to enter. So how do you build an autonomous vehicle in your garage? And how did amateur drone enthusiasts revolutionize the industry forever? Anderson details the genius behind DIY robots and explains how they can help solve problems encountered by those on the forefront of autonomous vehicle development.
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He used to manage an endurance racing team. Now he’s in charge of a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Argo AI’s Andre Ramdhanny explains what they have in common. Hear the former team-builder share the most exciting story from his racing career, what really happens when you take your car to a dealership for servicing, and why you don’t need a PhD to work in the tech sector. Stay tuned as he also solves Alex’s BMW battery problems and breaks down the best racing books to add to your reading list.
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From Zipcar to running Chicago and Washington D.C.’s Departments of Transportation, to VC fund Fontinalis and CityFi, Gabe Klein is one of the zero-BS good guys working to keep cities moving and people happy. Klein joins Alex & Bryan to talk about the broken-window theory, transit deserts, data privacy and more. And stay tuned for a fact-check on the demise of streetcars, what highways got wrong, and a possible resurgence of pedestrian zones.
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What can sci-fi teach us about the future of autonomous vehicles, transportation, and human nature? “Black Panther” Production Designer and Ohio native Hannah Beachler explains her personal struggles with inaccessible transportation systems, how and why she designed the fictional, car-free capital of Wakanda, and what it would take for her to trust a self-driving car. Plus, she shares her love of Porsche and a secret that may shine a light on the friction between personal freedom and the future of urban mobility.
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