Larry Burns identifies the biggest threat to the automotive future

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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4.8 • 31 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The retired General Motors vice president of R&D and adviser to Google and Waymo believes the way digital technology is reshaping our lives will impact both vehicle development and whether we need vehicles at all.

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0:00.0	Shift is brought to you by Soundhound AI, the leading innovator of voice AI technology.
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0:15.7	Hi everybody.
0:21.6	Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your
0:25.1	host reporter at the Automotive News. Today I am thrilled to share that Larry
0:30.7	Burns, the retired vice president of research and development at General Motors, is my guest on the podcast.
0:37.0	Larry is responsible for so much of the innovative thinking that has taken place at GM over the years that we see in various forms today.
0:45.0	Beyond that role, he was an advisor to Google
0:48.0	on its self-driving car project and later Weimo.
0:51.0	And he still has much to share about how the transportation landscape continues to evolve.
0:56.0	We'll be back with Larry in just a moment, but first today, my colleague Hannah Lutz is here to discuss headlines from the mobility realm this week.
1:04.0	Welcome, Hannah.
1:05.0	Hi, Pete.
1:06.0	How are you today?
1:07.0	Pretty good.
1:08.0	Happy to be here. Lots going on in the industry.
1:11.0	There is, and there's probably one overriding headline that jumped out at me this week
1:16.8	and that is related to the Biden administration reportedly going to slow down implementation of the EV transition.
1:25.0	What is going on in Washington, Hannah?
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