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Autonomy Insiders is the weekly podcast for people who need a clear view of autonomous driving, not recycled takes.
Each episode features interviews with leaders across the autonomy ecosystem: robotaxi operators, OEMs, platform players, regulators, and investors.
We go deep on Europe and China, markets that are often under-covered, and we always connect back to the US so you can compare playbooks.
We talk about what changes outcomes: deployment constraints, unit economics, partnership strategy, safety cases, regulation, and the real work of scaling fleets and operations.
You will hear what leaders are optimizing for, where they are stuck, and what they think is coming next.
If you follow autonomous vehicles, this is built for you.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
44 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
32 episodes
since March 8, 2026
episodic
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Germany wrote the world's first legal framework for driverless commercial service in 2021. Five years later, no operator holds a regular Level 4 approval. Why?
Till Stegemann is a lawyer at Rödl in Berlin. He advises cities, transport operators and companies on autonomous mobility. He is a co-autho…
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Southeast Asia should be the last place AV's arrive. Dense, improvised traffic, monsoon rain and some of the cheapest driver labor in any middle-income region. Yet in April 2026, Punggol in northeast Singapore became the first residential neighborhood in Southeast Asia with a public autonomous pass…
London's first robotaxi service runs on the Uber app with a safety driver still behind the wheel. Here is every step a company must clear before the UK lets it take the driver out.
Tym Syrytczyk co-founded the Institute for Driverless Transport (IFDT), an independent UK research body, and writes S…
Europe's first fully driverless commercial robobus runs in France.
beti is a French operator of automated mobility networks, and a spin-off from Bertolami, a family coach business that has moved people around rural France for 75 years. CEO Benjamin Baudet explains the layer of the autonomous drivi…
Everyone measures robotaxi progress in miles driven. Almost nobody measures the hours the vehicle spends not driving. George Kalligeros, co-founder and CEO of Aseon Labs, is building a robot that compresses a depot into a single parking space.
When a robotaxi drops below its charge threshold, it l…
France already has a working legal framework for approving driverless public transport. Most of the industry has never heard of it. Aryldo Russo of GESTE Engineering takes it apart piece by piece.
Getting a vehicle type approved in Europe is one problem. Getting a driverless service running on a sp…
WeRide CEO Tony Han on where robotaxis actually break even, how the Uber partnership works in Abu Dhabi, and why Europe could be profitable from day one.
Most robotaxi conversations cover one city, maybe one country. Tony Han runs a company that has tested or operated in more than 60 cities across…
This video is sponsored by TaskUS.Autonomous fleets do not scale on software alone. The hidden advantage is the human layer and Nick Allen reveals how TaskUs powers the remote assistance, safety, validation, and emergency response that keeps robotaxis moving when the real world gets messy.
If you t…
Everyone in autonomous driving argues about sensors, foundation models and remote assistance ratios. Almost nobody argues about the last ten meters. Bern Grush, CEO of Pudocity, on why the robotaxi industry's real constraint is not the AI. It is deciding where the vehicle stops.
Safety is an engin…
Europe's autonomous vehicle problem is not the technology. It is that almost nobody outside the industry knows what is coming. Guido Di Pasquale, Managing Director of PAVE Europe, on trust, education, and what actually decides whether Europe becomes a player or a market.
Most AV coverage tracks th…
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