Why You Won't Call 'Shotgun' In An Autonomous World - Autoline After Hours 430

SPECIAL GUESTS:
Andrew Lund, Chief Engineer, Toyota Motor North America
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Jeff Stout, Executive Director of Research, Technology & New Mobility, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

NEWS:
01:30 - Toyota's Project Portal 2.0: A Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Semi
19:15 - Introduction to Yanfeng
21:35 - Doctor Data
24:00 - Yanfeng: Designing Autonomous Interiors
32:20 - Waymo, Ride-Sharing, & New Mobility
42:30 - Purpose-Built Ride-Sharing Vehicles

PANEL:
- Gary Vasilash, Automotive Design & Production

[riggald]

There are 16, 000 drayage trucks in Los Angeles. If, as Andrew Lund says, each pollutes as much as 40 light-duty vehicles, then converting all the drayage trucks to ZEV is like converting half a million ICE cars!

[nc]

Kinda surprised Gary Vasilash from Yanfeng Automotive Interiors was far more insightful than ur main guest Andrew Lund, Chief Engineer from Toyota. With how the Interiors and vehicles in general will have to adapt to mobitly centric model. Andrew Lund seemed more fixed on more mondain issue and his past work engineer minivans.

So pls have Gary Vasilash on again so we can ask him questions. Thx.

[jaketen]

FYI Autoline, Nikola is not doing a battery semi, they are doing a fuel cell semi, like Toyota.

[MrChevybaja]

Wow, Jeff sounds very similar to Frank Marcus

[WonderfulCan]

When you can refill hydrogen within 5 minutes who wants to wait for a battery powered to be recharged, especially for the semis.

[theevermind]

A hydrogen semi will never be used willingly in the free market.

A semi drives ~45k mi/yr. At 6.5 mpg & $3/gal, that's over $20k/yr in fuel costs.
If that truck runs on hydrogen, it's ~$40k/yr in fuel costs, and no, the cost won't come down.

What truck driver will willingly pay $20k MORE each year and limit where they can work? OTOH, charging batteries off the grid will reduce their annual fuel costs to ~$8k/yr. Yes, it will limit where they can work as well, but at least with batteries, they will save $12k/yr.

Hydrogen is a scam, a boondoggle, and nothing but propaganda. Anyone who does even the most basic math & thermodynamics can easily prove that. If you want to break a story and be real journalists--report that. (But of course that would make the car companies upset & they'll stop giving you test drives & interviews.)

[gabrielvargas]

The self-driving Taxy will be one interior for 95% of the people, super cheap and durable interior and other for 5% that will be luxury.

[AlbertManiscalco]

i never understand youtube down votes on content like this...what the hell is there not to like...? great content as usual guys, thanks for putting it out! 🙂

[incognitotorpedo]

"Battery and Hydrogen both have a place"... That's what the guys with the losing technology always say. Ask about cost per mile and cost of infrastructure.

[richardmckrell]

Autonomous vehicles will have very limited implementation in the next 20 years.

[caferacer]

teach an old person how to use uber app, why you need autonomous lol. old people will be scared to get into an empty car lol

[johansterk]

These rooms are shockingly ugly! Even the chairs are.