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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 the shift of podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow,

your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everybody, it's Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

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

Joining us on the podcast today is Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the

Governor's Highway Safety Association. He'll be breaking down the

organization's new reports on pedestrian deaths. But first Leslie and Alexa, you know, as usual, another busy week in

the mobility world. I think one of the biggest pieces of news that caught my eye

was we have a company going public and it's not via

a SPAC this week. Alexa tell us about what Too Simple is doing. That's right the

self-driving truck startup known as Too Simple has filed for an IPO.

As you said, not via SPAC, which is kind of breaking from the trend that we've seen in the mobility space in recent months here.

And too simple, they're based out of San Diego, California.

They've been working on self-driving technology since about 2015 and has seen quite a bit of

interest from the industry lately. Obviously we know that self-driving truck technology has a couple of different

applications. I've heard a lot about the first and last mile applications but

also you know in terms of highway and freeway driving for

truck drivers should be an interesting development on on this side of things, but, you

know, I know that's not the only thing that we've heard out of

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