The inaugural iDriveSoCal Podcast kicks off with mobility news headlines from last week and what’s coming up in this week’s episodes. The LA Auto Show is in full swing, thieves are leveraging high-tech features of new cars to their advantage and resolution to what may have been the ultimate ‘Dude, Where’s My Car’ mystery! And coming up this week; LA City and other area leaders deliver a first of its kind mobility event. We sit down with LA CoMotion Chairman, John Rossant, for a two-episode interview. Hear how Los Angeles is becoming the global hub of transportation innovation and bold predictions for the complete elimination of LA traffic PLUS vertical transportation vehicles are coming our way! (Yes, FLYING CARS!) ***Transcript*** Recording date – December 4, 2017 Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility in the automotive capital of the United States – Southern California. I’m Tom Smith. Here’s the latest in mobility news: The LA Auto Show kicked off Friday, December 1st and runs through Sunday, December 10th. Beyond being one of biggest auto shows in the world, it’s recently become a beacon for industry insiders to gather before the public opening to discuss and plan the future of transportation. Hey! That’d be a great time for launching a podcast covering the future of mobility in the area with the worst traffic in the world! (Oh wait, that’s us – we’re actually doing that.) Crooks are using the latest technology to steal high-end cars. Home security video caught two men in the UK stealing a new Mercedes S-Class. The video shows one-crook waving a small device around the outside wall of home. Apparently finding and picking up the signal from the vehicle’s key-fob. Meanwhile crook-two uses another device to unlock and drive off with the Benz as if it was his own. The growing problem has cops offering up solutions including: Using an old fashioned steering wheel lock. And that has owners responding, “Yeah right, that’s exactly why I spent a-hundred- grand on a new high-tech luxury land yacht – to fit it with the club!” And what may be the ultimate “Dude where’s my car” mystery was solved in Germany recently. This after police tracked down the owner of a Volkswagen Passat. The car was in a parking lot that was tagged to be demolished. When the cops found the 76-year-old owner, they realized the man forgot he’d parked it there and reported the car stolen 20-years ago. The car had rusted into a state of disrepair and had to be towed away as junk. No word on the status of the outstanding late fees. And that’s what’s happening in mobility news. Coming up this week on iDrive SoCal. As Southern California, technology and the future of mobility continue to intersect; area leaders deliver a new event targeting the mobility revolution that’s about to transform Los Angeles and cities around the world. We sit down with LA CoMotion chairman John Rossant for a two episode interview. In part one we learn more about the event and why Los Angeles is the perfect city for it to take place. John Rossant: It's a fact of life you have to get into a car to go places. So the needs are huge here to have better solutions to mobility and then you have this critical mass of a market of 10 million auto mobility consumers in LA County, which is enormous. But you have other things that I think will make it this sort of capital of transportation technology. It's not a coincidence that Elon Musk,
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