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Autonomous Vehicles Business with Fexingo: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Mobility Companies

Autonomous Vehicles Business with Fexingo: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Mobility Companies

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Every trading day, Lucas and Luna sit down with the latest market data, earnings reports, and macro indicators to dissect the business of autonomous vehicles — not the demo reels, but the balance sheets. They track how Waymo, Tesla, Cruise, and Aurora are burning cash, who’s winning the LIDAR cost war, and what the Fed’s rate decisions mean for SPACs that went public with $2 billion valuations and $0 revenue. The show lives in the tension between the technology’s promise and the industry’s capital-intensive reality. When a new Robotaxi approval drops in San Francisco or a trucking pilot launches in Texas, Lucas brings the numbers (unit economics, regulatory timelines, insurance liabilities) and Luna pushes back on the narratives — is this a real inflection point or just another press release? They break down the supply chain for compute chips, the labor economics of trucking, and the liability frameworks forming around autonomy. For listeners who already follow the sector and need to separate signal from noise — not for enthusiasts who just want to hear about lidar specs. The question they always return to: which of these companies will still be independent in five years? #AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars #Robotaxi #Waymo #Tesla #Cruise #AuroraInnovation #LIDAR #AutonomousTrucking #SPACs #ElectricVehicles #MobilityTech #SupplyChain #Regulatory #Technology #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • How Autonomous Vehicles Are Handling Highway Merges

    How Autonomous Vehicles Are Handling Highway Merges
    Jun 15 2026
    Lucas and Luna dive into one of the hardest remaining challenges for self-driving cars: highway merging. They break down why the problem is harder than it looks, how Tesla and Waymo approach it differently, and what a new dataset from the University of Michigan reveals about merge failures. Lucas shares a specific stat: 8 percent of all autonomous vehicle disengagements happen at merge points, according to a 2025 study by the University of Michigan. They also discuss the tension between aggressive and conservative merge strategies, and how the industry is starting to use reinforcement learning to teach cars to negotiate like humans. No fluff, just the mechanics of a tricky driving maneuver. #AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars #HighwayMerges #Tesla #Waymo #Cruise #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #UniversityOfMichigan #Disengagements #AlexKendall #Safety #Technology #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #LucasAndLuna #DrivingBehavior Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    11 mins
  • How Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Read Hand Signals

    How Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Read Hand Signals
    Jun 14 2026
    Episode 51 of Autonomous Vehicles Business with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into one of the hardest unsolved problems in self-driving: interpreting human hand signals and gestures. From police officers directing traffic in construction zones to cyclists pointing at hazards, today's autonomous systems struggle with non-verbal communication that humans handle instinctively. Lucas breaks down the specific challenges — like the difference between a 'stop' hand and a 'wave-through' — and how companies like Waymo and Aurora are using computer vision models trained on thousands of hours of real-world gesture data. They also discuss a surprising case study from Japan, where a local AV startup is mapping the country's unique hand-signal culture. If you've ever wondered why self-driving cars still hesitate at four-way stops when a human is waving, this episode explains exactly why. #AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars #ComputerVision #GestureRecognition #Waymo #Aurora #HandSignals #TrafficSafety #AVTechnology #MachineLearning #ConstructionZones #CyclistSafety #HumanRobotInteraction #JapanAV #AutonomousTrucks #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #Technology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 mins
  • How Autonomous Vehicles Are Learning to Navigate Roundabouts

    How Autonomous Vehicles Are Learning to Navigate Roundabouts
    Jun 14 2026
    Episode 50 of Autonomous Vehicles Business takes on the humble roundabout. Lucas and Luna explain why these simple traffic circles are surprisingly hard for self-driving systems, what sensor fusion breakthroughs are finally solving the problem, and how a pilot in Carmel, Indiana is turning a roundabout-rich suburb into a proving ground. With context from Tesla's recent Lidar pivot and Waymo's expanded testing in European-style junctions, this episode drills into one specific infrastructure challenge that's kept autonomous vehicles off suburban streets longer than most people realize. Data points include Waymo's 2025 roundabout disengagement rate and the $2.1 million federal grant funding the Carmel project. #AutonomousVehicles #Roundabouts #SelfDrivingCars #Waymo #Tesla #CarmelIndiana #SensorFusion #Lidar #AutonomousDriving #TrafficEngineering #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #AVSafety #Infrastructure #SuburbanMobility #Episode50 Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
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