Larry Burns is a pioneer in the electrified and automated vehicle space, highly successful industry veteran, and author of Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car – And How It Will Reshape Our World.
Key topics in this conversation include:
- The potential for automobility to improve people’s lives through safer, more sustainable, more effective, and more accessible transportation
- Why Autonomy is the best book I’ve read on the topic of future mobility
- The benefit of a two-mode assisted/automated driving solution
- The power of the skateboard platform for electrification, and how Larry and his team at GM demonstrated this approach two decades ago
- The future – merging transportation with information and communication
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Links:
- Larry’s website: https://www.lawrencedburns.org/
- Autonomy book: https://www.amazon.com/Autonomy-Quest-Driverless-Car-Reshape/dp/0062661124
Larry’s Bio:
Larry Burns advises organizations on the future of mobility, logistics, manufacturing, energy and innovation. His current clients include Goodyear, Kitson & Partners, Niron Magnetics and Namoramic Laboratories. Larry served as General Motors Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning from 1998-2009. Between 2010 and 2021, Larry was a consultant to Waymo (Google Self-Driving Cars), Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan, Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University, and an advisor to several major companies.
Full bio: Larry Burns extended bio
Future of Mobility:
The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields.