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NO PARKING is a zero BS podcast about how technology will (or won't) change our daily lives, with a rotating cast of the human beings building the future. Hosted by roboticist Bryan Salesky and Cannonball Run racer and author Alex Roy.

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NO PARKING is a zero BS podcast about how technology will (or won't) change our daily lives, with a rotating cast of the human beings building the future. Hosted by roboticist Bryan Salesky and Cannonball Run racer and author Alex Roy.

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English


Episodes
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Can A Car-Free Lifestyle Actually Work?

3/23/2020
When NY Times columnist Kara Swisher announced she was giving up her car for good, some said that was crazy. Kara joins Alex and Bryan to discuss how that’s played out, if and when autonomous vehicles will take over, and whether private ownership will really go away.
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Red Dawn, The A-Team and How To Make The Impossible Possible

3/16/2020
How and why do people take on seemingly impossible goals? From war to sports to business, New York Times Bestselling author Neal Bascomb is the master of telling the stories of those who have triumphed despite all opposition. Bascomb joins Alex Roy to discuss their favorite books, patriotism, some classic sci-fiction movies, the A-Team, Red Dawn, Quetzalcoatl, and Bascomb’s upcoming book FASTER, the true story of a Jewish race car driver taking on Hitler’s favorite team on the eve of World...

Duration:00:56:15

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When Will Self-Driving Cars Be Safe?

3/9/2020
What is Safety? When will AI be good enough to remove the safety drivers from autonomous vehicles? Who decides, and how do they do it? From U.S. Navy subs to Carnegie Mellon, the National Robotics Engineering Center and now Edge Case Research, Dr. Phillip Koopman has long been the tip of the intellectual spear defining the bar for safety, and raising it. But what happens when Alex Roy asks the question no one in AI or robotics wants to answer?

Duration:01:15:26

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The Truth About Cyberattacks

3/2/2020
How hard is it to hack a self-driving car? What happens when someone tries to phish the CEO of Argo AI? How realistic is that crazy room in the first Mission Impossible movie? How can we protect ourselves from cyberattack? From secret military projects to Carnegie Mellon University to civilian autonomous vehicles, Argo AI Chief Information Officer Summer Craze Fowler has seen it all. In one of our earliest recorded episodes, Summer schools Bryan and Alex on the truth about the biggest secret...

Duration:00:34:00

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Can The Free Market Solve Traffic?

2/24/2020
Hype-cutting gets a new ally as SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin shares the biggest secret in mobility, then takes a white hot chainsaw through myths around smart cities, efficiency, congestion, housing costs, the relationship between socialism and potholes, supply and demand, the value of time, how San Francisco can be fixed, and how public/private partnerships go wrong…or right.

Duration:00:46:51

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Why We Should Hack Capitalism, Vote Autonomy, And Value Simplicity

2/17/2020
In Alex Roy’s favorite episode since so far, Josh McManus (Chief Strategy Officer, Civic) talks about trust, safety, why '“city” is a verb instead of a noun, Bucky Fuller, spreading principles instead of scaling programs, autonomy isn’t a technical or regulatory problem, confusing movement with progress, the tyranny of intellectualism, not believing your own BS, the folly of zero-sum thinking, hacking capitalism for good, and why we should value simplicity, durability and beauty.

Duration:01:07:34

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How Can A Restaurant Reboot A Neighborhood?

2/10/2020
Alex & Bryan discuss woodworking, trust and quality furniture, then visit an entrepreneur who really tells it like it is: James Beard-award winning chef Michael Schwartz, whose Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink helped transform a run-down neighborhood into Miami’s amazing Design District.

Duration:00:39:23

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How To Design Humanoid Robots

2/3/2020
Some see the coming of Skynet, but Agility Robotics is building increasingly humanoid robots with one goal: to serve mankind. From the one-legged Thumper to a two-armed, two-legged delivery robot named Digit, Founder Damion Shelton has long been at the cutting edge of robots meant to do our bidding. But first he has to make them actually work.

Duration:00:36:30

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What Is The Future of Music In Cars?

1/27/2020
He lost his dad at 15, launched his first company on a shoestring, and sold it when he was 18. This week Alex & Bryan meet Jake Millar, Founder and CEO of Unfiltered.TV, who has interviewed 500+ of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs — from Richard Branson to Eric Yuan (Zoom) to Cal Henderson (Slack) — about how to launch, scale, manage and sell companies. Check it out as NO PARKING turns the tables on the young entrepreneur some call a one-man Davos. Learn more about Jake...

Duration:00:46:21

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Are Autonomous Vehicles Necessary?

1/20/2020
Who better to debate Autonomous Vehicles with Alex Roy than Dr. Mark Rosekind - former head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Fatigue Countermeasures at NASA - currently the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, and one of the most opinionated and colorful characters in America.

Duration:01:14:16

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How To Teach Coding To Kids Who Can’t Afford It

1/13/2020
The best way to make American great is to equip our most talented kids with the tools to build the next generation of technology. The problem? Many public schools lack computer science classes. The solution: Steel City Codes, an educational non-profit led by kids, for kids. Meet founders Akshana Dassanaike-Perera, Joshua Zhou & Claire Shao.

Duration:00:33:51

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How To Build An Autonomous Race Car at Home

1/6/2020
He led Wired Magazine from 2001-2012, making the internet cool and mainstream. He coined the term “The Long Tail.” Now Chris Anderson is the Founder/CEO of 3D Robotics, DIY Drones and DIY Robocars, an autonomous racing series anyone can afford to enter.

Duration:01:04:55

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What Autonomous Vehicles Can Learn From Car Racing

12/30/2019
He used to manage an endurance racing team. Now he’s in charge of a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Argo AI’s Andre Ramdhanny explains what they have in common, and why you don’t need a PhD to work in the tech sector.

Duration:00:42:19

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How To Keep Cities Moving And People Happy

12/23/2019
From Zipcar to running Chicago and Washington DC’s Departments of Transportation, to VC fund Fontinalis and CityFi, Gabe Klein is one of the zero-BS good guys working to make cities move and people happy. Klein joins Alex & Bryan to talk transit deserts, privacy, what happened to streetcars, why building highways through cities is bad, and why 1 in 3 streets should become pedestrian zones.

Duration:00:35:00

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What Black Panther Says about the Future of Transportation

12/16/2019
What can sci-fi teach us about the future of autonomous vehicles, transportation and human nature? Black Panther Production Designer Hannah Beachler explains what it would take for her to trust an AV, and shares a secret that may shine a light on the friction between personal freedom and the future of urban mobility.

Duration:00:31:01

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Would You Trust A Robot Dentist?

12/9/2019
From cars to ships, trains and planes, robots are playing a greater role than ever. But would you trust a robot dentist? Brachium CEO/Founder Yaz Shehab has a lot to say about the similarities AND differences between automating health care vs. transportation, and why trust is everything.

Duration:01:06:35

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The Man Who Designs The Future

12/2/2019
Creative Director Alex McDowell doesn’t see the future, he designs it, and everyone from venture capitalists to Ford and NASA look to his work on films (“Minority Report,” “Fight Club,” “Watchmen,” “Lawnmower Man”) for inspiration. But unlike many futurists, McDowell’s futures aren’t robot-centric at all.

Duration:00:30:38

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A New Kind Of City Planner

11/25/2019
From Zipcar to Ford, the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute, Jessica Robinson is one of the true experts in urban transportation. Hear her explain why there may be too much data, whether lessons from one city are portable to another, and why urban planners should earn a Masters in Mobility. planners should earn a Masters in Mobility.

Duration:00:56:01

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Autonomous Vehicles & Beyond

11/18/2019
From the Marines to Carnegie Mellon, the DARPA Challenges, Three Mile Island, Bhopal, the Moon, Mars and things he still can’t talk about, the legendary Red Whittaker has taught, led and inspired teams to do the impossible. Hear the father of Field Robotics share his thoughts on leadership, invention and the future.

Duration:00:47:17

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From “Lone Survivor” to No Driver

11/11/2019
The director of Friday Night Lights, Patriots Day, Very Bad Things, Deepwater Horizon and Battleship joins Alex Roy & Bryan Salesky to discuss what drives the characters in all his films, heroism, fatherhood, risk, driving, freedom, self-driving cars, and the greatest WW2 movie that has never been made. And boxing.

Duration:00:48:46