Merge Now Episode #10: Alisyn Malek of May Mobility on the Autonomous Urban Shuttle Business

Low-speed shuttles are one of the first areas where real businesses are being built around driverless tech, making them a case study for its challenges and opportunities.
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As The Drive‘s recent reporting on the struggles of the French autonomous low-speed shuttle company Navya demonstrate, building a business around autonomous drive technology in the short term is tough. Growing without overextending, deploying while continuing to develop and weighing cost pressure against sufficient capabilities for real safety are all difficult balances to strike. One company that seems to have managed them well is May Mobility, whose COO and co-founder Alisyn Malek joins Merge Now this week to describe their approach to domains, technology and business development.

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Edward Niedermeyer

Senior Editor, Mobility Technology

The former Editor-in-Chief of The Truth About Cars, Ed has contributed to BloombergView, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. He co-hosts The Autonocast, one of the most-followed podcasts on autonomous and advanced mobility tech. His book "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" will be published by BenBella Books in 2019.