The Inside Track: Our AI Future
The Inside Track is a weekly podcast where your host, Ryan Myrehn, and his guests explore the limitless possibilities of AI and emerging tech and its evolving role in sports, media, and entertainment.
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April 17, 2024 • 26 mins
In this special episode, we look back at some of our original predictions for 2023 as a way to reflect on where the world of autonomous racing and AI technology is in 2024. How do those predictions stack up to reality? Does what we know now about the integration with universities, industry, and government agencies match our original predictions? What more will we learn in the years to come?
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April 2, 2024 • 32 mins
The motorsports world attracts people from all walks of life. However, it’s not every day that a former rock star becomes a pioneer in the electrical vehicle space. Today on the Inside on the Inside Track, we have the honor of speaking with Rue Phillips, former guitarist for Black Sabbath and current President of EV training and implementation company SkillFusion. SkillFusion has been working tirelessly to improve the EV experience...
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March 26, 2024 • 28 mins
Today, on the inside track, we get a chance to look at how the autonomous motorsports team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been writing a manual for the world of autonomous racing. To help explain the process, Simon Hoffmann, the leader of the TUM team, sits down with us to discuss how they became the first-ever winners of the Indy Autonomous challenge, some of the obstacles they overcame to get their car on the t...
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March 20, 2024 • 29 mins
In the words of the NASCAR legend Richard Childress, “Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.” This is the most fitting quote to explain the near obsession so many students and engineers competing in the IAC develop. The intoxicating call to the racetrack easily proves there is a racing driver in all of us.
Today, on the inside track, we sit down with team leader Stephanie Meyer of Autonomous Tiger Racing ...
Today, on the inside track, we sit down with team leader Stephanie Meyer of Autonomous Tiger Racing ...
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March 12, 2024 • 18 mins
So far in this series, we have had so many incredible conversations with the leaders and visionaries of the autonomous revolution that it can be easy to lose sight of just how far we’ve come. Just eight years ago, some of the first commercial self-driving cars were crawling along at 10 miles per hour in California, and today, we have seen first-hand how fast these cars can go.
Today, on the Inside Track, we have the honor of speaki...
Today, on the Inside Track, we have the honor of speaki...
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March 5, 2024 • 25 mins
Today, on the Inside Track, we sit down with Gary Passon, the AI Racing Team Principal and leader for the University of Hawaii, to discuss how a school known for Oceanography became a leading name in robotics and engineering.
The small but mighty robotics and engineering team at the University of Hawaii Manoa is not only competing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but is beating some of the most advanced engineering teams in the world. G...
The small but mighty robotics and engineering team at the University of Hawaii Manoa is not only competing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but is beating some of the most advanced engineering teams in the world. G...
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February 27, 2024 • 21 mins
This time, on the inside track, Andy Saba joins us to discuss his role in leading a mostly undergraduate student team for the IAC. Andy Saba is a master’s student of engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and has firmly rooted himself in the world of autonomous race cars. Ryan and Paul get the inside scoop into how Andy and his team went from a few lines of code to racing an autonomous car at 150+ miles pe...
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February 20, 2024 • 24 mins
This time, on the inside track, Andy Saba joins us to discuss his role in leading a mostly undergraduate student team for the IAC. Andy Saba is a master’s student of engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and has firmly rooted himself in the world of autonomous race cars. Ryan and Paul get the inside scoop into how Andy and his team went from a few lines of code to racing an autonomous car at 150+ miles pe...
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February 13, 2024 • 27 mins
AI and autonomous technology are showing up in more and more industries. From banking to racing to emergency medicine, AI is giving humans a serious leg up in their work. This week Sarah Burnett, renowned technology industry analyst and author of the book The Autonomous Enterprise: Powered by AI, joins us to preach the AI gospel and explain how most industries are utilizing some form of it – even if they don’t realize it.
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February 6, 2024 • 31 mins
Alessio Cicolari is a pioneer in the world of Esports and sim racing, and the CEO and Founder of the Ak Group. In this episode of the Inside Track, Ryan and Paul sit down with Alessio to compare the challenges and triumphs of the Indy Autonomous Challenge and the various Esport racing events Alessio has experienced over the years.
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January 30, 2024 • 26 mins
The knock-on effects of new technology manifests itself in often unpredictable ways. This of course includes the autonomous technology used in the vehicles racing around the track at Indianapolis. In a truly surprising turn, these race cars are now considered a matter of national security. Today, the DoD has taken a serious interest in the IAC and how Artificial intelligence is changing the way the United States Military protects i...
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January 9, 2024 • 27 mins
In honor of CES 2024, we’re sharing our recent discussion with Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and co-producer of CES. Whether it’s lobbying Congress for new AI regulations, running the world’s largest consumer tech trade show, or showcasing groundbreaking new startups, Gary has been a leader in the tech industry for more than 30 years. In this episode, we break down where state and federal regulations clas...
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January 2, 2024 • 17 mins
Andrea Levy teaches everyone working in motorsports a very valuable lesson, if you want people to come to auto shows you have to showcase the cars. This is exactly why Andrea Levy created the Milan Monza open-air motorshow. Ryan and Paul explore why auto shows are changing and why showcasing any new technology is the best way to generate buzz and interest in the public at large.
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December 26, 2023 • 45 mins
In this episode, Ryan Myrehn and Paul Mitchell, the President of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, have a very special guest joining them from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Senior Vice President David Watkins sits down to delve into the future of the automobile industry in tandem with the swift evolution of autonomous technology. The discussion revolves around how the IAC is playing a pivotal role in maintaining the Un...
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December 19, 2023 • 33 mins
Ryan Myrehn and Paul Mitchell speak with a pioneer in autonomous vehicles, Sebastian Thrun. He's the CEO of Kitty Hawk and the founder of Google's self-driving car team, as well as an educator and co-founder of Udacity. Sebastian guides us through the future of personal flying machines, the ethics of AI, and how the work of the Indy Autonomous Challenge will make the roads safer for everyone.
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January 7, 2023 • 28 mins
Welcome to the first episode of The Inside Track! Our host, Ryan Myrehn, chats with Paul Mitchell and Don Wettrick at the Indie Autonomous Headquarters. Today we will discuss the cutting-edge technology that inspired the Indie Autonomous Challenge, why college students who've never even driven a car before are drawn to Automotive Sports, and more importantly, Robots driving cars!
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