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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Self-Driving Shuttles Find New Purpose In Fight Against COVID (Episode 37)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

CEO Joe Moye reveals how Beep’s shuttles are being used to deliver coronavirus tests in a partnership with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, and more broadly discusses insights from the company’s early operations near Orlando.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone welcome to shift a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News. the And Leslie Allen, Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

0:23.2

Thanks for joining us.

0:24.8

Jo me today on the Shift Podcast is Joe Moy,

0:28.4

CEO of Beep, a mobility provider that is running pilot projects primarily in the Florida area but also across the country.

0:38.1

They have paused some of their normal operations and are instead

0:46.9

partnering with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to run

0:57.0

medical tests from drive-through COVID-19 test sites to a Mayo Clinic laboratory to be processed. Joe is going to tell us about those efforts and more shortly here, but first let's catch up on some of the other coronavirus

1:08.4

related updates around the mobility realm. I was just reading about At a Sky, an Israeli company that is using its

1:17.5

thermal imaging cameras to pioneer a way to test and detect the temperatures of shoppers or anybody else in a public area so that people

1:29.1

who might be sick can be spotted and perhaps quarantines early.

1:34.0

And Leslie, I know you've heard about similar efforts from others.

1:38.0

Yeah, ironically, this is another Israeli company.

1:41.0

I was just looking at an article by Ed Garston,

1:44.9

a friend of mine who works for, he writes for Forbes.

1:48.4

And he did this piece about a company

1:50.6

that I believe is pronounced UVAI.

1:53.1

And normally this company does imaging

1:56.6

for, I guess, vehicle inspections, drive-through inspections.

2:01.5

And they are saying that they can help detect drivers and

2:04.4

passengers who may have a fever, you know, I guess as they're going through the line

2:08.8

and which can provide some additional information to emergency workers to see if these people need to be

2:16.0

tested for COVID-19.

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