Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News’ weekday podcast, Aug. 29-31, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“This is an opportunity for Ford to showcase the best of what Mustang has been. And it comes at a time when the company is really trying to reinvent itself.” — Michael Martinez, Automotive News reporter, on what is likely to be the last gasoline-powered Mustang and what that means for Ford’s future
“Continuing to limit the number of vehicles innovative companies need to put on the road to conduct pilots and test beds so they can build safety into their autonomous offerings will hobble and cripple this industry. It’s preposterous.” — Selika Josiah Talbott, CEO of Autonomous Vehicle Consulting, on federal regulations she says are slowing the adoption of driverless trucking
“There’s a huge battleground for this data — or huge potential — billions of dollars at stake. And I think the big question is, who’s going to get access and monetize this data? … Apple, in a sense, is saying, ‘It’s our data. We want that data.’ ” — Doug Newcomb, Automotive News reporter, on the new version of Apple CarPlay and the fight it likely sets up with automakers over user data
Listen to ‘Daily Drive’ at autonews/dailydrive.com