Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

And it's Alexis St. John, covering tech and suppliers. Joining us in a few minutes on

the podcast is Mike Ramsey, senior analyst at technology consulting firm Gartner.

He's going to walk us through the firm's latest hype cycle reports, which has autonomous vehicles listed in the trough of disillusionment, a phrase that I think a lot of our

listeners are probably familiar with.

But first, Alexa, I wanted to chat a little bit about some of the news this week in the industry.

We have a new name for the Hyundai Active Joint Venture.

What is it?

They just announced on Tuesday, in fact,

that the new name is Motional, which is a combination

of the words motion and emotional.

And we had the president of the Hyundai Active JV on our podcast.

I think just about two months ago, time is flying these days.

But I know this announcement, we've been waiting for it. I it was hoping we're hoping that it was

going to come soon and so finally unveiled the new branding and it sounds like

along with that announcement they're also expecting to grow the

team beyond the handful or so of cities that they're they're already in so

sounds like a lot of exciting things are to come for, I guess, emotional.

What emotional seems to try and capture to me is the idea that driving in a car or riding in a car now you're not even driving is still

like remains an emotional experience of some kind or brings joy kind of

captures that that love of driving that a lot of car enthusiasts have.

But I don't know if riding in an autonomous vehicle brings that.

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