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visit a.am.com slash future. Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow,

your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everyone, happy March. This is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

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

Joining us on the podcast this morning is morning is Sean Carrigan, co-founder and chief operating officer of Plus AI,

a company building automated driving systems for trucks.

And that happens to be one of these companies featured in this month's

shift magazine, Leslie, that comes out today, is that right?

That does come out today with today's issue of automotive news

for those of you who are subscribers and you can also access it on the web and it's

interesting that we do have plus featured in the magazine because it's all about

logistics. It's all about how the industry is changing. We're calling it from the

factory to the freeway in terms of automation, robotics, 3D printing, augmented reality, autonomous technology obviously.

And we're seeing how literally from the shipyard to the factory floor, we're seeing so many changes taking place, trucking of course being one of those.

And I, one of these stories that you have in the magazine,

Pete, that I thought was really interesting, was the evolution of LIDAR. I mean, not really the evolution of it. We're seeing LIDAR being used in so many different places along the supply chain and I was rather surprised to see how extensively LIDAR is in use.

Yeah, it's interesting to think of the rapid adoption of LIDAR,

you know, we always think about it in automotive terms,

and that is just one small slice of of its potential use cases and that was a that was an

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