From Futurama to future tech, Dan Albert muses on the auto industry’s past, present and driverless road ahead (Episode 295)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
Automotive News
4.8 • 31 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News. |
| 0:08.9 | Joining me on today's episode, I'm really pleased that Dan Albert, the author, historian, professor, curator, Jack and Master of Many Trades, will be joining me for a neandering conversation on cars and their |
| 0:23.9 | role in American culture, the evolution of road safety, which fits nicely into a recent |
| 0:29.8 | story of mine, and the future of driverless vehicles. There's no real categorizing this one. |
| 0:35.3 | It's a kitchen sink sort of podcast. But first today, |
| 0:39.3 | we've got to look at this week's headlines. And there really is only one headline. And for the |
| 0:44.6 | latest on how tariffs are impacting the American auto industry, I'm joined by my colleague, |
| 0:50.6 | John Irwin. John, welcome back to shift. Thanks for having me, Pete. You bet. |
| 0:56.3 | You've been a marathon runner the past month just following all the ins and outs of the tariff |
| 1:01.1 | developments. How are you holding up? Doing all right. It's been a lot. There's a lot to keep up |
| 1:05.3 | with, but we're hanging in there. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel, John? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, that's a big question everyone has. and I think it's probably too soon to say, |
| 1:15.1 | but we have gotten past April 2nd, which has been hyped up for a long time, |
| 1:19.1 | is a new reciprocal tariffs and other things come into place. |
| 1:23.0 | So at least there's some more clarity, at least, for what's in place. |
| 1:27.2 | That's right. So tell us what happened on April 2nd and what is the overarching |
| 1:32.0 | takeaways from the tariffs that are now in place. Yeah, it was interesting. April 2nd, |
| 1:38.1 | we saw reciprocal tariffs on other nations come into place. This is something that the White |
| 1:42.3 | House has been kind of teasing and hyping up for weeks, maybe months now. And essentially, every country will be subject to a 10% |
| 1:49.7 | base tariff. Other countries, a lot of trading partners will be much higher than that. It's what |
| 1:54.6 | high is like 46, 47%, depending on what country we're talking about. But the interesting thing for |
| 1:59.8 | automotive is that these tariffs, like, largely, |
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