Shift is brought to you by Bridgestone Solutions for your journey. Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow,

your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everyone, Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine and Alexis St John covering

tech and suppliers joining us on the podcast today is a man who's considered one of

the foremost pioneers in autonomous driving.

We'll be speaking with Aurora CEO Chris Ermsen.

Really looking forward to that conversation with Chris and you know of course this is a pretty timely interview Pete as we mentioned on our last episode

Aurora took a big step a couple of weeks ago with its acquisition of Uber's Advanced Technology Group.

And ATG, of course, is Uber's Autonomous Transportation Unit.

As part of the deal, We know that Uber plans to invest

400 million dollars in Aurora and you know we do know that Uber had been looking

for a buyer like Aurora for some time for this self-driving division.

So this conversation with Chris really I think will be great for our audience.

Yeah, you know, Alexa, he really obviously adds a fresh perspective on why they're going, you know,

why he's looking for that acquisition, you know, what a company that's primarily focused on robot taxi brings to one that's primarily focused on trucking, what it takes to integrate two companies like that in many ways.

And in that sense, Aurora has been turning its focus toward both.

And Chris thinks that this adds a lot of horsepower to both the roboo taxi and trucking efforts.

We'll get to Chris in just a moment, but before I forget,

just wanted to tell our listeners to be sure to stay tuned after the conversation.

We're going to bring you some more highlights from our December 8th events called

mobility at a crossroads.

Yes Pete talk about interesting discussions right well during this by the way, we focused on what happens next in the industry after the disruptions that were caused by COVID-19. We're going to hear from John Simillet, who is a mobility expert from EY, and Cheryl Connolly, the chief

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