Best Smart Mobility Living Lab Podcasts (2025)

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What will driverless vehicles of the future look like? 21:50

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5+ y ago21:50

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Exactly what the CAVs of the future will look like is very much still up for debate. It remains unclear whether form will lead function or the other way round. Some suggest that designers have an opportunity to shape how self-driving are used by their non-driving passengers. Others will argue that CAV design will be informed by what the vehicles ar…

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What threat will hackers present to driverless vehicles? 24:37

6y ago24:37

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It’s July 2015, and Andy Greenberg is driving his Jeep Cherokee through downtown St Louis. The weather is normal for a summer’s day in Missouri: clear and warm. So Andy finds it a bit frustrating when the windshield wipers start up. Especially as he can’t seem to switch them off. Then the air conditioning turns up full blast, even though Andy hasn’…

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How will humans interact with self-driving vehicles? 20:55

6y ago20:55

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Stop, look, and listen. If you grew up in the UK, these words – or a variation of them – should be familiar to you. Since 1967, they’ve formed the basis of government campaigns teaching children how to cross the road safely. Everyone from Batman, to Doctor Who, and even a singing hedgehog has been involved in these campaigns. Being able to interact…

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Will driverless cars be safer than current vehicles? 28:16

6y ago28:16

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There were 1,770 reported road deaths in the UK from 2017-18, with more than 26-and-a-half thousand people killed or seriously injured.Debates about how the introduction of driverless vehicles might impact these statistics can be tensely fought affairs. For many people, safety is the most important consideration to be made about a driverless future…

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Will driverless vehicles make every car a rental? 24:30

6y ago24:30

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According to the AA, a new car starts diminishing in value as soon as you drive it off the forecourt. By the time you’ve been pootling around in it for a year, it might have lost as much as 40% of its value. Three years later, and your car’s value could have dropped by as much as 60%.Add in the fact that cars in the UK typically spend about 96% of …

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How will we ensure that infrastructure can accommodate driverless cars? 25:48

6+ y ago25:48

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When it comes to getting from A to B, there are other things you might need – a map, good tunes, or someone to feed you boiled sweets – but generally, a mode of transport and something to ride it on are enough.Today, Britain boasts an estimated 246,700 miles of road, traversed by as many as 38 million licensed vehicles.We’ve talked quite a lot abou…

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How will driverless vehicles affect the future of freight? 23:50

6+ y ago23:50

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It’s nearly Christmas, which means if you work in an office you’ll no doubt have noticed the steady increase in packages showing up at reception.Indeed, Adobe Analytics data revealed last month that more than half of UK Christmas shopping budgets will be spent online this year.A quarter of UK shoppers do their shopping over what’s become known as t…

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How do you legislate for driverless cars? 26:00

6+ y ago26:00

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Welcome to episode one of Journey Makers: the podcast exploring not just what the future looks like, but how we’re going to get there.In each episode, we aim to tackle one of the big questions facing the future of mobility. One question – just one – but a big one. Every month.This month, we’re looking at policy; and the question we’re asking is: “h…

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The future's around the corner, but how will we get there? 4:02

6+ y ago4:02

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In this brand new podcast series from London's Smart Mobility Living Lab, we’ll be posing the big questions facing the future of mobility – and, more specifically, investigating the life-changing journey that road-bound transportation is embarking on itself. But we’re not just asking questions – anyone can do that. We’ll be trying to answer them to…