Electric Motors, Elon Musk Mistake & Guitar Hero?
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This episode features Prof. Jack McCauley, University of California, Berkeley. As an engineer at Activision, James designed the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video game series and was the Chief Engineer at Oculus VR, which was later acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. In this conversation, Robert and James talk Autonomous driving, stereo cameras, battery technology, The Chevrolet Bolt, being wrong about Elon Musk electric motors and whether electric planes will ever be an actual thing
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the fully charged plus podcast. I'm really enjoying doing these |
| 0:26.0 | shows and just meeting such incredible people and talking to them from all over the world. Today's |
| 0:32.0 | guest on the show is literally no exceptions to that rule because he's amazing. It's Professor |
| 0:38.8 | Jack McCauley who is I'm going to have to just check that I get this right. It's really important |
| 0:45.0 | here's a professor of engineering and teaches environmental vehicle engineering class at UC Berkeley |
| 0:55.5 | in just outside San Francisco or in San Francisco. Let's just I've been past it. I know where it is. |
| 1:03.7 | So that's what he does now and he's talking and we have an amazing conversation about batteries |
| 1:08.5 | and electric motors and electric vehicles and the history of electric vehicles and where the power |
| 1:12.8 | comes from and how that it's used and how efficient they are blah blah blah all those things |
| 1:17.4 | really that's what we're talking about. But I just want to quickly tell you a bit of Jack's |
| 1:21.6 | background because it is extraordinary so you may have in your time plugged in a USB cable. We've |
| 1:30.0 | all done it and a USB stands for universal serial bus. We've all done that. Well there was numerous |
| 1:37.2 | people that got together to invent the universal serial bus connector for computers and one of them |
| 1:44.5 | was Jack. He also created the original scrolling feature for a computer mouse so you move the mouse. |
| 1:50.3 | Yes that moves it up and down that moves the cursor around the screen but what about the actual |
| 1:55.1 | when you're scrolling through a document. Jack was involved in that. He some of you may in your |
| 2:02.2 | youth or maybe you still do have played guitar hero. We do briefly talk about that. Jack was involved |
| 2:09.1 | in creating that. Some of you may have put on VR headsets so that you can live in an alternate |
| 2:15.6 | universe. Well I'll tell you a many of you will have heard of Oculus Rift. Well Jack McAulay was |
| 2:21.6 | one of the founders of Oculus VR and manufacturer of the Oculus Rift and Oculus was later acquired |
| 2:29.6 | by Facebook which was you know just quite he's got this amazing history but now he's working on |
| 2:37.4 | you know hard way. He's a real he's a car nut so he's working on lots of electric cars |
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