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Hi everybody, welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

The problems at Self-driving tech company crews

have been a dominant storyline in the transportation world

over the past two months.

In that time, you may know,

the California DMV has suspended the company's driverless permits

following a crash with a pedestrian. Cruz, a General Motors subsidiary, then elected

to pause its operations nationwide,

massively shrink its ambitious expansion plans,

two top executives resigned, etc.

Suffice to say a lot has happened. The subject of today's podcast is what happens next.

My guest is Phil Coatman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and embedded system safety

experts.

Phil is going to help us sort through Cruz's response to the incident thus far

and make some recommendations on how the company should further consider what happens next,

how it goes forward in a truly transparent

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