Podcast with Kerri Kauffman Chief Revenue Officer Juiced Bikes Juiced Bikes’s Chief Revenue Officer, Kerri Kauffman, stops by the Bike Lane to chat with host Jake Sigal about e-bikes: Why training and age limits are crucial to safety; how cheap e-bikes can be a hazard and she describes logical steps toward sensible legislative oversight; why drivers blaming e-bike riders for …
Podcast with Clark Haynes Founder and CEO velo.ai Velo.AI’s CEO Clark Haynes stops by to chat with host Jake Sigal about the important need for more incident (“near-miss”) data affecting bicycles and vehicles. Clark also describes his company’s sophisticated new product for bicycles that integrates radar and smart camera-image processing for alerting the rider to potential vehicle ‘threats’. Reach Clark …
Podcast with Roger Lanctot Director, Automotive Connected Mobility TechInsights Roger Lanctot returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about startups trying to penetrate the hard automotive bubble (or fail trying), why one large tech operation is the company everyone loves to hate, why every OEM automotive needs to seek help outside their own …
Podcast with Noa Banayan Director of Federal Affairs PeopleForBikes People for Bikes’ Noa Banayan stops by to chat with Jake about policy successes and how her team’s focus largely shifted towards incentives and ways to get e-bikes in the hands of more Americans (and along with those bikes: Helmets, locks, and safety gear!). Links mentioned in this episode: Streetsblog USA …
Podcast with Phil Koopman Professor Carnegie Mellon University Philip Koopman, author, researcher, and Carnegie Mellon University professor, stops by The Bike Lane for a frank chat with host Jake Sigal about why autonomous vehicles’ driving is worse than a 16 year old human learning how to drive; how insurance companies view the emerging AV industry; why roadside sensors add AV …
Podcast with John Quain Founder, Editor-in-Chief OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com John Quain returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about banning e-scooters in urban areas for safety reasons; dangerous e-batteries; the trend to ‘return to bicycles’; the need for secure bicycle parking, and more. Links mentioned in this episode: On The Road to Autonomy The Weekly …
Podcast with Ben Gascoigne Vice President and General Manager PSS Ben Gascoigne stops by The Bike Lane to talk about the PSS engineering and design philosophy employed to make modern traffic control devices that promote roadway work zone safety, temporary traffic control, pedestrian safety, and driver safety. Ben also touches on ADA compliance to facilitate accessibility and detectability in pedestrian …
Podcast with Cory J. Hohs CEO HAAS Alert Cory Hohs stops by The Bike Lane to talk about his work developing (and building funding for) technology to assist first responders. Safety Cloud by HAAS Alert makes roadways safer by alerting drivers to nearby hazards in real-time, but amassing funding and building the technology where none existed can be a “chicken …
Podcast with Kellen Pucher Head of Business Development Panasonic’s Smart Mobility Office – Cirrus by Panasonic Kellen Pucher stops by The Bike Lane to describe Panasonic’s early development of C-V2X in Colorado and the real value of the system. Kellen and Jake Sigal discuss open national data standards within the transportation system and why “V2X is kind of that open …
Podcast with Ed Straub VP Land Systems SAE ITC Ed Straub joins The Bike Lane to discuss the reasoning behind, and importance of, industry standards in Transportation Systems. From the pre-competitive meetings, to the cooperative standards creation committees, to the adoption of those standards, Ed describes why it’s essential for technologies that “just work together” regardless of the manufacturer. Links …