Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter to Automotive News.

Autonomous vehicle vigilantes in San Francisco, Lordstown's bankruptcy,

the ghosts of Argo AI alive and well in Austin, Texas, Hydrogen's hopes gaining momentum across the board.

It may be the dog days of summer, but there's no short supply of news in the mobility realm.

But it is nonetheless 4th of July week, which means we've had a short week here at Automotive News, and today's podcast is devoted to catching up to all the developments I just mentioned in more.

So in short, that means we're switching things up a little bit today and doing a

reporter's roundtable format to catch up on all that news.

So joining me to discuss the news of the week

is my colleague on the tech and innovation team.

And sometimes shift podcast host, Molly Boegon.

Molly, how are you today?

I'm good, thanks.

How are you, Pete?

I am doing great.

Just trying to digest a lot of the things

that we kind of missed or are like briefly sketched out this week but it's been busy.

Yeah, lots to catch up on for sure.

Yes. Why don't we go ahead and dive in to some of the developments that we see in San Francisco this week?

Have you caught up with the shenanigans that some citizens are pulling with AVs on the street there.

You know, I saw some stuff on Twitter,

but I definitely could use a refresher.

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