The Bike Lane
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Covering all things safety in and around the bike lane. The Bike Lane theme music by Daniel Sommers
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Nov 16, 2023
Conversation with folks from Bosch about eBike innovations
Jocelyn Vande Velde, of Bosch eBike Systems, and Bosch's Kunal Kapoor chat with host Jake Sigal about innovations in Bosch’s e-bike products and contemplate the company's long-standing corporate philosophy, first stated by founder Robert Bosch in the late 19th century: “I have always acted according to the principle that ‘I would rather lose money than trust.’ The integrity of my promises, the belief in the value of my products and in my word of honor have always had a higher priority to me than a transitory profit.”
Kapoor discusses how Bosch, by certifying its products (by UL Solutions, and others) and not just “asserting” and “conforming,” instills consumer confidence that the products are "safe as can be," and the effort is worth the company's time and investment.
The conversation includes a quick sidebar about Bosch's anti-lock braking system (ABS) for bikes.
Contacts:
Jocelyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynvandevelde/
Kapoor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-kapoor-4b245a6/
Links mentioned in this episode:
Scott Galloway's weekly email No Mercy / No Malice
https://profgmedia.com/no-mercy-no-malice/
Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) Newsletters
https://www.prba.org/
Learn more about the Bosch eBikes at:
https://www.bosch-ebike.com/us/
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Oct 12, 2023
Natalie Draisin:Look globally, act locally for safety solutions
FIA Foundation North America Director & United Nations Representative Natalie Draisin stops by The Bike Lane to chat with host Jake Sigal about Vulnerable Road User safety projects, toolkits, and discovering great safety implementations around the world that just plain work. She says the key is wise, well researched and well thought-out infrastructure changes that are adaptable to different localities regardless of locality size and resources. Natalie offers interesting perspectives that may leave you thinking about what safety implementations your locality can accomplish.
Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane:
PBIC Messenger Newsletter
National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
Wiser Than Me™ with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Streets for Kids with Anna Siprikova, Global Designing Cities Initiative (on The Mobility Podcast)
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Sep 14, 2023
Kerri Kauffman: Increase e-bike rider and equipment safety
Juiced Bikes's Chief Revenue Officer, Kerri Kauffman, stops by the Bike Lane to chat with host Jake Sigal about e-bikes: Why training and age limits are crucial to safety; how cheap e-bikes can be a hazard and she describes logical steps toward sensible legislative oversight; why drivers blaming e-bike riders for accidents are missing the bigger safety picture.
Kerri describes the success a California community has had in integrating e-bikes into its culture and how equal access to e-bikes benefits the community.
Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
* Electrify Expo https://www.electrifyexpo.com/
* Micromobility industries https://micromobility.io/
* People for Bikes https://www.peopleforbikes.org/
Juiced Bikes Contacts: marketing@juicedbikes.com, support@juicedbikes.com
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Aug 11, 2023
Clark Haynes: More data needed on car-bike interactions
Velo.AI's CEO Clark Haynes stops by to chat with host Jake Sigal about the important need for more incident ("near-miss") data affecting bicycles and vehicles. Clark also describes his company's sophisticated new product for bicycles that integrates radar and smart camera-image processing for alerting the rider to potential vehicle 'threats'.
Reach Clark at clark@velo.ai
Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
I'm coming a lot from the autonomous vehicle world, so I still follow all of, all of the old companies...follow the Waymo, Cruise, Aurora. They're really doing interesting work.
--Clark Haynes
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Jul 13, 2023
Roger Lanctot: A brief re-examination of automotive, startups, data sharing, and what's to be done.
Roger Lanctot returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about startups trying to penetrate the hard automotive bubble (or fail trying), why one large tech operation is the company everyone loves to hate, why every OEM automotive needs to seek help outside their own walls, how a large telecom realized they're suddenly involved in real-life vehicle safety...and more.
Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
Smart Driving Cars podcast
Driving with Dunne podcast (Amazon and other platforms)
The 24/48 podcast
Changing the Industry podcast
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Jun 8, 2023
Noa Banayan: E-bikes is the fastest growing sector of the bike market
People for Bikes' Noa Banayan stops by to chat with Jake about policy successes and how her team's focus largely shifted towards incentives and ways to get e-bikes in the hands of more Americans (and along with those bikes: Helmets, locks, and safety gear!).
Links mentioned in this episode:
* Streetsblog USA https://usa.streetsblog.org/
* Affirmation Chickens https://acshilton.substack.com/
* People for Bikes https://www.peopleforbikes.org/
Contacts:
noa@peopleforbikes.org
Twitter:
@NoaBanayan
@pfbpolicy
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Apr 27, 2023
Philip Koopman: AV car companies' on-road testing without safeguards don't have good outcomes
Philip Koopman, author, researcher, and Carnegie Mellon University professor, stops by The Bike Lane for a frank chat with host Jake Sigal about why autonomous vehicles' driving is worse than a 16 year old human learning how to drive; how insurance companies view the emerging AV industry; why roadside sensors add AV confidence (but they're not be-all-end-all solutions!); why road construction zone rules don't work for "normal civilians"; and other insights.
Links mentioned in this episode:
* Autonocast http://www.autonocast.com
* Cautionary Tales https://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/
* The Ojo-Yoshida Report https://ojoyoshidareport.com/
* Philip Koopman on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-koopman-0631a4116/
* Safe Autonomy blog https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/
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Apr 13, 2023
John Quain - A lively chat about transportation
John Quain returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about banning e-scooters in urban areas for safety reasons; dangerous e-batteries; the trend to 'return to bicycles'; the need for secure bicycle parking in urban areas, and more.
Links mentioned in this episode:
On The Road to Autonomy
The Weekly Guide to Developments and News About Connected and Autonomous Cars
https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, (2021), by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/dp/0374157359
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Mar 2, 2023
Ben Gascoigne, VP PSS: Traffic control devices are essential now and for the foreseeable future
Ben Gascoigne stops by The Bike Lane to talk about the PSS engineering and design philosophy employed to make modern traffic control devices that promote roadway work zone safety, temporary traffic control, pedestrian safety, and driver safety. Ben also touches on ADA compliance to facilitate accessibility and detectability in pedestrian work zones, and PSS efforts to educate municipalities and others on best practices for ADA compliance.
Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane
* PSS on the web: https://pss-innovations.com/
* PSS email contact: smartcities@pss-Innovations.com
* Promotional video of Raptor and RoadQuake in action https://youtu.be/cIlcS-wr1_k
* Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
* (Proposed) Public Rights-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines https://www.access-board.gov/prowag/
* Work Zone Data Exchange (WZDx) https://www.transportation.gov/av/data/wzdx
* In Depth by First Round Review https://review.firstround.com/podcast
* How I Build This with Guy Raz https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
* Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making https://www.amazon.com/Build-Unorthodox-Guide-Making-Things/dp/0063046067
* AASHTO Daily Transportation Update (DTU) https://dailyupdate.transportation.org/Pages/DailyUpdate.aspx
* ITS America https://itsa.org/
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Jan 26, 2023
Cory Hohs: CEO HAAS Alert: Making technology for First Responders is rewarding, challenging
Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane
* Transportation Communications Newsletter http://transport-communications.blogspot.com/
* Lenny's Startup https://www.lennyrachitsky.com
* Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson https://startalkmedia.com/
* HAAS Alert resources https://www.haasalert.com/resources
* HAAS Alert News https://www.haasalert.com/news
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Oct 27, 2022
Kellen Pucher: Smart Mobility Office at Panasonic North America: Strong advantages of V2X
Kellen Pucher stops by The Bike Lane to describe Panasonic's early development of C-V2X in Colorado and the real value of the system. Kellen and Jake Sigal discuss open national data standards within the transportation system and why "V2X is kind of that open data standard whereby anybody can play and they can translate their technology stack to that data standard".
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Sep 29, 2022
Ed Straub, VP, Land Systems SAE ITC: The how and why of industry standards in smart transportation
Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane
* SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC®) https://www.sae-itc.com/
* The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium™ (AVSC) https://avsc.sae-itc.org/
* AVSC paper on Vulnerable Road Users https://avsc.sae-itc.org/principle-9-5471WV-480377B.html?respondentID=35936449#our-work
* The wiki on Autonomous Vehicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car
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Aug 25, 2022
Bob Najduk, Trek Bicycle Co.: Education, and technology, key in keeping riders safe
Links mentioned in this episode of The Bike Lane:
* Bontrager Bike Lights for daytime flash - https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/equipment/bike-accessories/bike-lights/bike-light-sets/bontrager-ion-200-rt/flare-rt-light-set/p/23710/
* Bob Najduk on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-najduk-348b5a3/
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Jul 28, 2022
Roger Lanctot - Strategy Analytics: How safety enables the future of connected vehicles
Links mentioned in this Episode of The Bike Lane:
Smart Driving Cars podcast: https://www.smartdrivingcar.com/
Pete Bigelow on Shift: A podcast about mobility https://soundcloud.com/user-383952226
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Jun 30, 2022
Bob Margevicius, EVP Specialized - "Love What You Do and Do What You Love"
Specialized Bicycle Component's EVP Bob Margevicius joins The Bike Lane to share his story and why he continues to push bike safety within the company and the bicycle industry.
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May 24, 2022
John Quain - A Journalist's Perspective on Next Gen Smart City Safety
Links that were mentioned in the show:
* https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/
* https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-bike-helmet
Follow @jqontech
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Apr 28, 2022
Capitol Hill Cycling Insider Noa Banayan - PeopleForBikes
* Follow PeopleForBikes Policy Team @PFBPolicy
* USDOT Link Noa mentioned for USDOT's Calendar of 2022 Funding Programs
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