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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.
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From Rental Cars to Robotaxis: Hertz’s Bet on Fleet Operations | Doria Holbrook, CEO Oro Mobility
Every robotaxi still has to be charged, cleaned, repaired and financed. Hertz built a separate company to do that work, and it starts with human drivers. Doria Holbrook is CEO of Oro Mobility, the fleet platform Hertz launched this year to
Auve Tech’s Driverless Shuttle Playbook for Airports and Beyond | Taavi Rõivas
Robotaxis get the billions. But driverless shuttles on airports and private campuses may scale first, because the owner of the ground can say yes before the law changes. Taavi Rõivas was Prime Minister of Estonia. Today he chairs Auve Tech,
Europe’s Own Path to Autonomous Mobility | Lukas Neckermann
Is Europe hopelessly behind in autonomous driving, or should it skip the race altogether? Lukas Neckermann thinks both camps are wrong. If the driving software comes from California, China or Israel, what actually stays in Europe? Who earns
Inside Germany's Autonomous Driving Law: The Hurdle Nobody Has Cleared
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 opera
Grab's Autonomous Vehicle Playbook for Singapore and Southeast Asia | Dominic Ong, GM Autonomous
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 n
The UK's Autonomous Vehicle Permit Process Explained
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 Trans
beti: The French AV Operator Behind WeRide's First European Robobus | Benjamin Beaudet, CEO beti
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
Robot Pit Stops for Robotaxis | George Kalligeros, CEO Aseon Labs
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 spa
France's Driverless Transport Rules, Explained by the Assessor
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 i
How WeRide Built a Global Robotaxi Business in 9 Years | Tony Han, CEO WeRide
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
The Hidden Human Layer Making Autonomous Vehicles Scalable | Nick Allen, TaskUs
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 kee
The Robotaxi Industry's Real Bottleneck Is Not AI. It's the Curb
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.
Public Trust in Autonomous Vehicles: What Europeans Actually Fear
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 Europ
EU Type Approval Explained: How Autonomous Vehicles Get Certified for European Roads
Certification, type approval, homologation. Not the sexiest words in autonomous driving, but arguably the most decisive ones for whether AVs ever reach European roads at scale. The EU's Level 4 regulation (2022/1426) has existed for four ye
From AV Pilot to Public Service: What It Really Takes to Operate Autonomous Vehicles in Europe
Most conversations about autonomous driving stop at the vehicle: the sensors, the AI, the next demo. But once an autonomous service carries real passengers in public transport, the hard part is not the car. It is everything around it. In Ep
Agentic AI for Robotaxis: Inside Autobrains
The autonomous driving industry has mostly converged on one architecture: a single, monolithic end-to-end model trained to handle the entire driving task. Igal Raichelgauz, founder and CEO of Autobrains, argues that approach hits a wall on
Designing Driverless Cars for Everyone (Not Just Early Adopters)
Driverless cars can pass every safety test and still lose the passenger — because trust, not technology, decides whether robotaxis actually scale. Dr. Clare Mutzenich on the human factors inside the autonomous vehicle almost no one is desig
European Autonomous Driving: Inside Niulinx and the Robosharing Model
Europe has no autonomous driving champion. Luca Foresti wants to change that, without copying the American robotaxi. Daniel sits down with Luca Foresti, CEO and founder of Niulinx, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off that just raised 38 millio
The EU's "Now or Never" Moment on Autonomous Vehicles, Pierfrancesco Maran, Member of EU Parliament
Almost nobody in Brussels is against autonomous driving. That is not the problem. The problem is that most policymakers treat it as a distant future, not a present priority. So the agenda slips while the US and China move. Pierfrancesco Mar
What Waymo's Data Reveals About Who Actually Rides Robotaxis
Everyone in autonomous driving asks when the technology will work. William "Billy" Riggs asks the harder question: what happens after it does, when you have to fit it into a city that wasn't built for it? Daniel sits down with William, prof
Inside Loxo: Driverless Delivery Vans in Europe
Robotaxis dominate the autonomous driving conversation. Urban goods delivery rarely gets mentioned. Yet Europe has roughly 30 million light commercial vehicles doing last-mile and middle-mile work every day, and almost no one is building Le
Hands-Free Charging for Robotaxi Fleets: The Hidden Layer That Makes Robotaxis Profitable
Everyone in autonomous driving argues about software stacks, sensors, and miles driven. Almost nobody talks about what happens when the robotaxi pulls into the depot. And that is where autonomy quietly stops. A self-driving car cannot plug
Is the Uber-Waymo Partnership Coming to an End?
The Uber-Waymo partnership has shifted from strategic alliance to transactional relationship. And transactional relationships have shorter expiration dates. Waymo on Uber, where riders can only book a Waymo through the Uber app, exists in e
How Apollo Is Building the Insurance Layer for Autonomous Vehicles
You can build the safest autonomous vehicle in the world, but without insurance, it doesn't go on the road. In Episode 10 of Autonomy Insiders, host Daniel Abreu Marques sits down with Chris Moore, President of Apollo ibott (Lloyd's Syndica
Flexdrive: Lyft's Secret Weapon in Autonomous Mobility
When people talk about Lyft's autonomous strategy, the conversation usually starts and ends with Waymo. Underneath that headline sits FlexDrive, Lyft's wholly owned fleet management subsidiary and one of the most underestimated assets in th
Germany's Only Full-Stack Level 4 AV Startup: Inside MOTOR Ai
Germany has one company building a full Level 4 autonomous driving stack from scratch. Not an ADAS feature. Not a highway assist. A complete autonomous driver, developed in-house in Berlin. That company is MOTOR Ai, and it is pursuing EU ty
AV Charging Infrastructure: How Terawatt Is Building the Physical Layer Autonomous Fleets Need
Everyone talks about the sensors, the software, and the regulation behind autonomous vehicles. But almost nobody talks about where these fleets actually charge. In Episode 7 of Autonomy Insiders, host Daniel Abreu Marques sits down with Pet
Inside MOIA: Autonomous Turnkey Solution for Europe
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Rainer Becker, Director of Business Development at MOIA, the autonomous mobility arm of VW, to unpack how MOIA is building Europe's most ambitious autonomous ride-pooling operation. They cover: MOIA's
Baidu Apollo Robotaxis in Switzerland: Inside PostAuto's AmiGo Project
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Martin Neubauer, Head of Autonomous Mobility at PostAuto AG, to unpack how Switzerland's largest public transport operator is deploying autonomous vehicles in rural and alpine regions where traditional
Autonomous Driving in Switzerland: Regulation, Pilots, and Why Chinese Players Chose Swiss Roads
In this episode, Daniel sits down with Oliver Nahon, Director of Operations at the Swiss Association for Autonomous Mobility (SAAM), to break down what's really happening on the ground in Switzerland's fast-moving autonomous driving ecosyst
