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Visit Gentex.com to check out the latest in digital vision, connected car, and dimmable glass technologies. Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And it's Alexa St John, covering tech and suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Electrabit CEO Maria Anhalt.

She's going to be telling us a bit about her first month on the job,

some of the challenges and opportunities the company foresees in 2021 and about the software

defined car of the near future.

But first, Leslie and Alexa, a lot going on this week.

Obviously we have a bunch of the Chinese AV and ridehailing companies making news.

Edge case research has a new position paper out about some of these terminology we use to discuss

automated vehicles or and driver-assisted vehicles and first and foremost, maybe Leslie Spinn, the E-Sooter company affiliated with Ford, is doing what exactly.

Well, um, Spinn, as you guys know is Ford is calling it its multi mobility

subsidiary and uh, best known for its scooters and the, uh got a partnership now with a company called

Tortoise and what they're going to be doing is launching e-scooters that have

remote operation capability,

which means that if you leave your scooter somewhere,

there is a team that can remotely move it

to a different place.

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