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Autonomy Insiders

by Daniel Abreu Marques

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Inside Germany's Autonomous Driving Law: The Hurdle Nobody Has Cleared

October 7, 2026 · 43 min

Germany wrote the world's first legal framework for driverless commercial service in 2021. Five years later, no operator holds a regular Level 4 approval. Why? Till Stegemann is a lawyer at Rödl in Berlin. He advises cities, transport…
Grab's Autonomous Vehicle Playbook for Singapore and Southeast Asia | Dominic Ong, GM Autonomous

October 1, 2026 · 45 min

Southeast Asia should be the last place AV's arrive. Dense, improvised traffic, monsoon rain and some of the cheapest driver labor in any middle-income region. Yet in April 2026, Punggol in northeast Singapore became the first residential…
The UK's Autonomous Vehicle Permit Process Explained

September 23, 2026 · 49 min

London's first robotaxi service runs on the Uber app with a safety driver still behind the wheel. Here is every step a company must clear before the UK lets it take the driver out. Tym Syrytczyk co-founded the Institute for Driverless…
beti: The French AV Operator Behind WeRide's First European Robobus | Benjamin Beaudet, CEO beti

September 16, 2026 · 32 min

Europe's first fully driverless commercial robobus runs in France. beti is a French operator of automated mobility networks, and a spin-off from Bertolami, a family coach business that has moved people around rural France for 75 years…
Robot Pit Stops for Robotaxis | George Kalligeros, CEO Aseon Labs

September 9, 2026 · 34 min

Everyone measures robotaxi progress in miles driven. Almost nobody measures the hours the vehicle spends not driving. George Kalligeros, co-founder and CEO of Aseon Labs, is building a robot that compresses a depot into a single parking…

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France's Driverless Transport Rules, Explained by the Assessor

August 26, 2026 · 37 min

France already has a working legal framework for approving driverless public transport. Most of the industry has never heard of it. Aryldo Russo of GESTE Engineering takes it apart piece by piece. Getting a vehicle type approved in Europe…
How WeRide Built a Global Robotaxi Business in 9 Years | Tony Han, CEO WeRide

August 19, 2026 · 45 min

WeRide CEO Tony Han on where robotaxis actually break even, how the Uber partnership works in Abu Dhabi, and why Europe could be profitable from day one. Most robotaxi conversations cover one city, maybe one country. Tony Han runs a…
The Hidden Human Layer Making Autonomous Vehicles Scalable | Nick Allen, TaskUs

August 13, 2026 · 39 min

This video is sponsored by TaskUS. Autonomous fleets do not scale on software alone. The hidden advantage is the human layer and Nick Allen reveals how TaskUs powers the remote assistance, safety, validation, and emergency response that…
The Robotaxi Industry's Real Bottleneck Is Not AI. It's the Curb

August 5, 2026 · 44 min

Everyone in autonomous driving argues about sensors, foundation models and remote assistance ratios. Almost nobody argues about the last ten meters. Bern Grush, CEO of Pudocity, on why the robotaxi industry's real constraint is not the AI…
Public Trust in Autonomous Vehicles: What Europeans Actually Fear

July 29, 2026 · 37 min

Europe's autonomous vehicle problem is not the technology. It is that almost nobody outside the industry knows what is coming. Guido Di Pasquale, Managing Director of PAVE Europe, on trust, education, and what actually decides whether…
EU Type Approval Explained: How Autonomous Vehicles Get Certified for European Roads

July 22, 2026 · 50 min

Certification, type approval, homologation. Not the sexiest words in autonomous driving, but arguably the most decisive ones for whether AVs ever reach European roads at scale. The EU's Level 4 regulation (2022/1426) has existed for four…
From AV Pilot to Public Service: What It Really Takes to Operate Autonomous Vehicles in Europe

July 15, 2026 · 55 min

Most conversations about autonomous driving stop at the vehicle: the sensors, the AI, the next demo. But once an autonomous service carries real passengers in public transport, the hard part is not the car. It is everything around it. In…

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About the show

Autonomy Insiders is the weekly podcast for people who need a clear view of autonomous driving, not recycled takes. Each episode features interviews with leaders across the autonomy ecosystem: robotaxi operators, OEMs, platform players, regulators, and investors. We go deep on Europe and China, markets that are often under-covered, and we always connect back to the US so you can compare playbooks. We talk about what changes outcomes: deployment constraints, unit economics, partnership strategy, safety cases, regulation, and the real work of scaling fleets and operations. You will hear what leaders are optimizing for, where they are stuck, and what they think is coming next. If you follow autonomous vehicles, this is built for you.