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 that we'll be seeing 'luxury' electric vehicles in the $30K range. John's wide-ranging interests keep this episode lively and chock full of tech talk.

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 that ‘I would rather lose money than trust.’ The integrity of my promises, the belief in the value of my products and in my word of honor have always had a higher priority to me than a transitory profit.”

Kapoor discusses how Bosch, by certifying its products (by UL Solutions, and others) and not just “asserting” and “conforming,” instills consumer confidence that the products are "safe as can be," and the effort is worth the company's time and investment.

The conversation includes a quick sidebar about Bosch's anti-lock braking system (ABS) for bikes.

Contacts:
Jocelyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynvandevelde/
Kapoor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-kapoor-4b245a6/

Links mentioned in this episode:
Scott Galloway's weekly email No Mercy / No Malice
https://profgmedia.com/no-mercy-no-malice/

Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) Newsletters
https://www.prba.org/

Learn more about the Bosch eBikes at:
https://www.bosch-ebike.com/us/

FIA Foundation North America Director & United Nations Representative 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 changes that are adaptable to different localities regardless of locality size and resources. Natalie offers interesting perspectives that may leave you thinking about what safety implementations your locality can accomplish.

Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane:

PBIC Messenger Newsletter
National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
Wiser Than Me™ with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Streets for Kids with Anna Siprikova, Global Designing Cities Initiative (on The Mobility Podcast)

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 accidents are missing the bigger safety picture.
Kerri describes the success a California community has had in integrating e-bikes into its culture and how equal access to e-bikes benefits the community.

Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:

• Electrify Expo https://www.electrifyexpo.com/
• Micromobility industries https://micromobility.io/
• People for Bikes https://www.peopleforbikes.org/

Juiced Bikes Contacts: marketing@juicedbikes.com, support@juicedbikes.com

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 at clark@velo.ai

Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
I'm coming a lot from the autonomous vehicle world, so I still follow all of, all of the old companies...follow the Waymo, Cruise, Aurora. They're really doing interesting work.
--Clark Haynes

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 walls, how a large telecom realized they're suddenly involved in real-life vehicle safety...and more.

Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
Smart Driving Cars podcast
Driving with Dunne podcast (Amazon and other platforms)
The 24/48 podcast
Changing the Industry podcast

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 https://usa.streetsblog.org/
• Affirmation Chickens https://acshilton.substack.com/
• People for Bikes https://www.peopleforbikes.org/

Contacts:
noa@peopleforbikes.org
Twitter:
@NoaBanayan
@pfbpolicy

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 confidence (but they're not be-all-end-all solutions!); why road construction zone rules don't work for "normal civilians"; and other insights.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Autonocast http://www.autonocast.com
• Cautionary Tales https://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/
• The Ojo-Yoshida Report https://ojoyoshidareport.com/
• Philip Koopman on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-koopman-0631a4116/
• Safe Autonomy blog https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/