The Global Expansion of Self-Driving Vehicles
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Today’s show:
It’s self-driving time! We’re going deep on one of the most exciting spaces developing in the world, autonomous vehicles! We’ve got 3 experts on the show to talk to us enlighten us, Ben Seidl of Autolane, Ming Maa of Moove, and Nathan Parker of EdgeCase.
What’s going on in the world of self-driving? How has the reliability of autonomous vehicles improved? What challenges are we still facing in the industry? Will the US reign victorious, or is China sneaking up? Let’s find out on TWiST!
Timestamps:
00:00 intro
02:21 Uber teams up with Zoox!
03:02 Does EdgeCase work with Zoox?
03:03 Operational design domains
06:47 The challenges of bringing self-driving to new environments.
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00:17:19 How has reliability of autonomous cars improved?
00:19:18 How Ben Seidl came up with the idea for Autolane!
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00:27:47 How Moove helps autonmous vehicles go to market!
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00:33:28 The logisitcs of managing fleets.
00:37:08 Why is it called Autolane and not multi-modal lane?
00:40:50 Does EdgeCase work with smaller self-driving vehicles as well?
00:41:52 How autonomous systems will interact with one-another!
00:43:14 Why AV’s should not talk to other AV’s on the road
00:45:07 The state of the self-driving market
00:49:12 Why Tesla isn’t involving themselves in California
00:50:34 Why the US is leading the way with regulatory clarity in autonomous vehicles
01:02:51 Ben Seidl says federal regulation is a necessity
01:05:20 What is holding back self-driving growth in the US?
01:06:26 What companies make the most money in self driving
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Twist. My name is Alex. It is Wednesday, March 11th, |
| 0:05.0 | 2026, and today we are here to talk about the future of autonomy and the current state of affairs in the Robotaxie and Autonomous Commerce World. |
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| 0:21.3 | Set up payroll for any country in minutes and get back to building. |
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| 0:28.6 | Century. |
| 0:29.3 | Your team should be focused on shipping features, not chasing down bugs. |
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| 0:38.3 | .io slash twist and use the code Twist. |
| 0:41.3 | Circle. |
| 0:42.3 | Circle gives you everything you need to build and scale your community-led business. |
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| 0:50.3 | So, s.o slash twist. |
| 0:58.2 | We brought a great panel of folks here from all around the industry to help us understand where we are and where we're going. |
| 1:00.0 | So please join me in welcoming to the show or back to the show, really, Ben. |
| 1:03.7 | Ben Sidel from Auto Lane. |
| 1:05.3 | Auto Lane provides software and hardware to facilitate autonomous commerce out there in the |
| 1:09.2 | real world. |
| 1:10.0 | Ben, welcome back. |
| 1:10.9 | Thank you. Appreciate it. Pleasure, man. And then we have Nathan Parker from Edgecase. |
| 1:16.9 | Edgecase helps autonomous vehicle companies find edge cases and problems before they deploy into |
| 1:22.5 | production so they don't have any issues when they hit the streets. Nathan, I hope that was |
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