Rolling into 2024 with a chat about tech, trends and services

Podcast with John Quain Founder, Editor-in-Chief OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com Rolling into 2024, John Quain stops by to chat with host Jake Sigal about tech, trends, and services. John is the founder, Editor-in-Chief of OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com and has views on the rising popularity of subscription models as a funding path. His observations of the 2024 CES in Las Vegas has led him to opine …

‘Invented for life’ e-bike innovations, the Bosch way

Podcast with Jocelyn Vande Velde and Kunal Kapoor Bosch eBike Systems NA Jocelyn Vande Velde, of Bosch eBike Systems, and Bosch’s Kunal Kapoor chat with host Jake Sigal about innovations in Bosch’s e-bike products and contemplate the company’s long-standing corporate philosophy, first stated by founder Robert Bosch in the late 19th century: “I have always acted according to the principle …

Look globally, act locally for safety solutions

Podcast with Natalie Draisin Director, North American Office and United Nations Representative FIA Foundation FIA Director Natalie Draisin stops by The Bike Lane to chat with host Jake Sigal about Vulnerable Road User safety projects, toolkits, and discovering great safety implementations around the world that just plain work. She says the key is wise, well researched and well thought-out infrastructure …

Let’s talk about e-bikes

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 …

More data on car-bike interactions needed in drive to protect VRUs

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 …

Automakers ‘need all the help they can get’ from safety tech startups

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 …

E-bike popularity, the infrastructure bill and ‘a lot of great wins so far’

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 …

Let’s talk about safe autonomy

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 …

A lively chat about transportation

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 …

Saving lives on the road today, tomorrow and for decades to come

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 …