Mobility technology, tested against reality.
SAE Tomorrow Today brings engineers, standards specialists, transportation officials, and mobility people into direct conversation. Its strongest episodes translate dense subjects like automated-vehicle stop conditions, vehicle-wide power management, curb policy, and solar racing into usable explanations.
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SAE Tomorrow Today is an industry-facing mobility show with a practical ear. It is interested in what happens after a transportation idea leaves the slide deck. Grayson Brulte brings guests into detailed conversations about standards, safety practices, public infrastructure, electrification, automated vehicles, solar racing, and the everyday systems that make mobility work. The format is usually direct. A guest defines the subject, the host reframes it in simpler terms, and the conversation moves toward real consequences for engineers, agencies, companies, or travelers. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Automated-vehicle safety becomes a discussion of nominal and off-nominal stops, recoverable situations, and when remote assistance can help a vehicle decide what to do. Standards episodes focus less on paperwork than on consensus: how OEMs, suppliers, startups, academia, government agencies, and labs test assumptions against one another before a practice becomes shared guidance. Public-sector conversations are equally concrete. A Kansas transportation episode connects stadium moves, World Cup planning, distracted driving, enforcement, transit, walking, biking, and the challenge of designing around people rather than only cars. Clean-energy episodes widen the lens. Ceres appears through the language of investor risk, emissions reduction, electric vehicles, renewables, energy efficiency, and the economic case for a clean economy. A solar-car episode adds a more vivid field report, following student teams through 3,000 kilometers of Australian outback with heat, rain, road traffic, competition pressure, and sunlight as the energy source. The show can sound technical, but it generally works to make the technical matter legible. Its recurring question is not simply what is new. It asks who has to trust it, who has to standardize it, who has to deploy it, and what breaks when the system is poorly designed. That gives the program a grounded rhythm. It is useful for listeners who want mobility technology explained through process, constraints, and adoption rather than hype. The show is at its best when a narrow engineering topic opens into a larger civic or commercial problem. It makes the future of transportation feel less like a prediction and more like committee work, field testing, policy tradeoffs, and hard-earned public confidence.
Made for: For engineers, transportation planners, mobility people, policy watchers, and technically curious listeners who want clear context around vehicle systems, standards, electrification, and deployment. It suits people who prefer practical consequences over glossy futurism.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating standards, safety processes, and infrastructure details as the main story. It gives committee members, agency officials, and technical specialists room to explain how mobility systems actually become usable in public life.
Hosted by Grayson Brulte, SAE Tomorrow Today is a show about emerging technology and trends in mobility with the leaders, innovators, and strategists who make it all happen. As a trusted partner to mobility engineers for almost 120 years, SAE International provides unique and dynamic perspectives from innovative industry leaders on the challenges of tomorrow.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed interviews reveal how standards, regulation, simulation, and engineering practice shape the safety and deployment of mobility technology.
Grayson Brulte keeps SAE Tomorrow Today close to the machinery of mobility: the standards, validation methods, data models, and public systems that determine how technology reaches the road.
A robot car's hard stop can be "normal" here; you'll get the logic behind the label.
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AVSC breaks down nominal, off nominal, and recoverable stops.
SAE Tomorrow Today centers on the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium's non-competitive approach to safety and its ADS-DV stop-conditions report, with Darcene Fuldenhauer and Aaron McCurry laying out how AVSC builds best practices and information reports.
A clear look at how standards turn mobility ideas into real-world engineering.
The episode gives Christian Thiele and Dave Frank room to explain standards as the machinery that turns emerging mobility technology into real-world engineering.
Kansas mobility planning is framed as a practical safety question, from stadium crowds to school-zone concerns.
This episode tracks Grayson Brulte and Matt Messina, Chief of Multimodal Transportation at the Kansas Department of Transportation, as Kansas broadens transit planning around major events.
A thoughtful look at how SAE standards, technical papers, vehicle systems, and car enthusiasm could belong in one historical record.
SAE Tomorrow Today gives vehicle history a more personal doorway, pairing the affection people have for cars with the engineering work that helped shape them.
AI, terrain models, and vibration data support practical defense engineering.
SAE Tomorrow Today centers on AI, autonomy, and digital engineering in defense as Grayson Pulte speaks with Dr. Ardash Iyar, Director of Technology, Combat Mission Systems.
Europe's AV rules begin with the manufacturer, then move to the road.
It frames the EU's autonomous-vehicle rules as a careful step-by-step effort, where innovation and safety are treated as partners rather than rivals.
Solar advice with the fine print included.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
SAE Tomorrow Today episode 299 focuses on how Europe regulates autonomous vehicles across SAE Level 2 and Level 4, with host Grayson Brulte speaking to European Commission Joint Research Centre scientists Aspedito Rusciano and Akos.
Host Grayson Brulte interviews Dr.
Grayson Brulte speaks with Darcene Fuldenhauer, Executive Director of the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium, and Aaron McCurry, Principal Engineer at AVSC, about how eight member organizations publish free best-practice reports for SAE level four and five autonomous vehicles.
SAE Tomorrow Today episode 327 brings host Grayson Brulte together with SAE standards experts Christian Thiele and Dave Frank to explain how standards turn emerging technology into usable engineering.
Grayson Brulte interviews Matt Messina, Chief of Multimodal Transportation at the Kansas Department of Transportation, about how Kansas is building transit, bike, pedestrian, and rail options around major events and everyday travel.
Stephen Clark from Ceres discusses how the organization uses data-driven insights to help companies and investors cut emissions and accelerate the clean energy transition.
This episode discusses the publication of SAE J3311, a standard for vehicle-wide power optimization to address inefficient power consumption in modern vehicles.
Gabe Klein, co-founder of Adapt Impact and CitiFi and former executive director of the U.S.
Grayson Brulte speaks with SAE History of Ground Vehicles Committee members Jeff Singer, George Nichols, and Terry Mueller about why cars feel “visceral” and why their committee is focused on systems rather than specific models.
Host Grayson Pulte interviews Tony Matthew and Martin Boone about a student-built solar car winning the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge by crossing 3,000 km of the Australian outback on sunlight alone.
The episode explores how the EU is balancing innovation and regulation in autonomous vehicles, focusing on testing, validation, safety, and global collaboration.
Ron Poole from Inovi discusses adaptive battery and charging architectures for hybrids and EVs, focusing on helping OEMs deliver new vehicles faster.
Ed Olson discusses how MayMobility's multi-policy decision-making system enables cost-effective and scalable autonomous vehicle deployment.