Episode 402 | Autonomy Markets: Vegas Field Report and Autonomous Trucking Earnings

About this episode

Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss autonomous vehicle developments and earnings from Las Vegas.

This week on  Autonomy Markets ,  Grayson Brulte  and Walter Piecyk discuss Grayson’s Las Vegas field work riding in  Zoox  and Motional robotaxis,  Uber’s  earnings and the path to driver-out, and autonomous trucking earnings. The first thing Grayson did when he landed in Vegas was try to order a Zoox, but the service was not available until 11 AM and when it finally came online shortly after 11 AM, the wait time for the vehicle to arrive was 67 minutes. So he opened the Uber app and tried to order a Motional robotaxi, where he was paired with a Motional in under five minutes. During the one hour and seven minute Zoox wait time, he was able to ride down and back in two different Motional vehicles between Resorts World and the Luxor, arriving back with 21 minutes to spare. While he was in town, Grayson conducted  field work  at the Zoox depot where he counted more Toyota Highlander test vehicles than purpose-built Zoox robotaxis coming out of the depot. He also visited with the  Nuro  team at their test track at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. While Grayson was busy conducting field work,  Tesla  crossed 10 billion…

People in this episode

Host: Grayson Brulte

Guest: Walter Piecyk

Topics covered

• autonomous vehicles
• robotaxis
• earnings report
• Las Vegas field work
• Uber
• Tesla

Keywords

• autonomy
• robotaxi
• Zoox
• Motional
• Uber
• Tesla
• Aurora
• Kodiak
• ACT Expo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Zoox, Motional, Uber, Tesla, Aurora, Kodiak, Nuro

Places: Las Vegas, Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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