AI in Automotive Podcast · Jayesh Jagasia

AI in Automotive - #406 - Alex Roy, Founder - Johnson & Roy Advisors, Autonocast, The Drive, Human Driving Association

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There is no such thing as AI ethics - there is only the ethics of the leaders who develop it.
Alex Roy, former Argo AI executive and Autonocast host, provides deep insider analysis of the Cruise autonomous vehicle crisis in San Francisco. The conversation examines how corporate culture, regulatory gaps, and the pressure to meet public milestones led to the incident and its catastrophic aftermath, drawing parallels to the 2018 Uber ATG fatal crash.

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A sharp look at how autonomy fails when incentives outrun capability.

It frames Cruise as a way into the larger story of autonomous driving: how it is built, promoted, and finally judged. The episode works best when it moves from edge cases to public messaging to company culture, then widens to Uber ATG and Waymo, where the pressure to show…

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You want the real story behind Cruise, Uber ATG, and the pressure to look finished before the tech was ready.

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