Episodes

Electric vehicle adoption will threaten automotive profit distribution sooner than expected and much sooner than unit volumes would imply. Tesla has brought about this and many other large but less-noticed changes & threats. The Company has been afforded unprecedented (and sometimes counterproductive) latitude by customers, investors & the media. This 2-part segment is a companion to our publication, Everybody Hates Tesla . More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications ...

Listen to Alysia Green, Chief Information Officer of Chevron’s upstream energy exploration business, describe the interaction of Information Technology and Operational Technology. She discusses what’s shared and what’s different,

Listen to Behrooz Abdi, Chief Executive Officer of TDK InvenSense, describe the genesis of the microelectromechanical or MEMS sensor. Behrooz explains why he thinks many years of growth and innovation is ahead for the industry, how sensor fusion can provide smart answers at the network edge without needing to access the cloud, and why smartphone sensors are encroaching on industrial applications. Behrooz describes why the acquisition of public company InvenSense by TDK was the right decision fro...

Listen to Bill Ruh, Chief Executive Officer of GE Digital, describe the genesis of GE Digital in 2011 when he joined GE from Cisco. Bill explains the lessons learned in establishing the leading industrial internet of things player and why GE Digital’s offerings are what they are today. Listen to Bill describe how to innovate within a large company. Learn more about GE Digital and Bill. More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications and subscriptions thereto. If links aren...

Listen to Eddie Amos, Chief Technical Officer of GE explain how, since joining GE Digital via its acquisition of Meridium, he has focused on digital products ranging from manufacturing solutions to Asset Performance Management (APM) applications and other technologies that allow customers to digitize their operations and unlock the productivity of industrial equipment. Learn more about GE Digital and Eddie. More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications and subscriptions ...

Listen to Mark Farrell, the Mayor of San Francisco, explain why he wrote an open letter to Autonomous Vehicle companies requesting enhanced cooperation with municipal authorities. Hear the Mayor describe the outcomes from the resulting Safety Briefing, with presentations from Zoox and GM Cruise. Whay sensitized the Mayor to autonomous vehicles, well before the recently publicized and highly unfortunate fatal accidents. See the Mayor’s official release on the subject and learn more about Mark Fa...

Listen to Y Combinator 2018 Winter Event graduates Mike and Jack Ross, co-founders of Beanstalk, describe their objectives, challenges, and solutions for indoor farming. Understand how Beanstalk uses spin-offs of technologies outside of agriculture to make its approach successful. Visit Mike Ross and Jack Ross. More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications, and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your app, please go to www.techcarsmachines.com. A raw trans...

Listen to Y Combinator 2018 Winter Event graduates Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan, co-founders of Bear Flag Robotics, describe their objectives, challenges, and solutions automating tractors that services orchards. Understand how Bear Flag focuses on the near-term-possible in autonomy to target near-term commercial deployments. Visit Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan. More about GTK, your host Ali Tabibian, our conferences, publications, and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active i...

Listen to William Santana Li, Founder and CEO of Knightscope, and a Ford Motor Company veteran, describe how he’s raised $40MM without venture capital to build the leading security robot company. Understand how Knightscope focuses on the near-term-possible in autonomy to achieve commercial deployments today. Visit William Santana Li and Knightscope. More about GTK, your host, our conferences, publications and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your app, please go to www.techcarsm...

Listen to Chuhee Lee, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, a veteran of Volkswagen of America’s Electronic Research Lab, describe how his group’s activities improve the user experience for the 11 million vehicles a year that the VW Group manufactures. We’ll explore vehicle infotainment, autonomy, customization, and the evolving concept of “luxury”. Visit Chuhee and VW ERL. More about GTK, your host, our conferences, publications and subscriptions thereto. If links aren’t active in your a...

Listen to Josh Switkes, CEO and co-founder of Peloton Technology, describe how his company enables safe tailgating between trucks, helping the industry save fuel and improve safety. Understand why the company has raised $80MM from the likes of Intel, UPS and Volvo. What’s unique about trucking? Why is Peloton’s implementation of limited autonomy, a proprietary truck communication technology, and a network operating center proving to be the right approach? How does regulation influence Peloton? ...

In Part 3, we discuss recent progress and prospects for widely available, substantially autonomous vehicles. We’ll look at advances and leaders. In this 3-part segment, we ask and answer: What’s real and what’s not in “self-driving?” Which advances have near-term applications, and which vehicles are driving themselves already? In Part 1, we quantified the enormous size of the transportation industry, and how that size means there’s no reason to exaggerate autonomy claims: partial autonomy and u...

In Part 2, we review the history, challenges, and over promises in the field of vehicle autonomy. In this 3-part segment, we ask and answer: What’s real and what’s not in “self-driving?” Which advances have near-term applications, and which vehicles are driving themselves already? In Part 1, we quantified the enormous size of the transportation industry, and how that size means there’s no reason to exaggerate autonomy claims: partial autonomy and unrelated technology advances are making a big d...

What’s real and what’s not in “self-driving?” Which advances have near-term applications, and which vehicles are driving themselves already? In Part 1, we quantify the enormous size of the transportation industry, and how that size means there’s no reason to exaggerate autonomy claims: partial autonomy and unrelated technology advances are making a big difference in everything from energy sources, to safety, to infotainment, and to utilization rates. In Part 2, we’ll review the history, challen...

Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners will roadmap this series, describing how we’ll help Dear Listeners understand the world of artificial intelligence, data science, connectivity and sensors through their applications in cars and machines. He’ll answer your burning questions: What is this series about anyway? Why is tech in cars and machines so closely related? Who are these GTK guys anyway, and why should I listen to them? We’ll make it fun to digest our nutrient-packed, thoughtful content for tho...