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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.

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 Phil Copeman, the co-founder and chief technology officer at

Edge Case Research, a Pittsburgh company that helps make autonomous systems safer.

But first, Leslie and Alexa, I just wanted to kind of commemorate. It's been right about a full year

since the pandemic struck and changed transportation.

Alexa, I know that you were talking about a report from Inrix, the real-time traffic analytics company that

that kind of detailed some of the big changes and where we are today.

What did you learn?

That's right, Pete.

A lot of things in the transportation ecosystem have certainly changed in the past year,

and one of those of course is traffic and congestion. People haven't been commuting as much.

A lot of people are working from home, and therefore traffic

and congestion has dramatically declined. So the annual global traffic scorecard from

InterX found that traffic delays fell nearly 50% in major cities

across the country and the average American driver only spent about 26 hours in

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