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Alex Roy is Director of Special Operations at Argo.AI, host of the No Parking & Autonocast podcasts, editor-at-large at The Drive, founder of the Human Driving Association, author of The Driver, and Producer of APEX: The Secret Race Across America. He held the Cannonball Run record from 2006-2013. You can follow him Twitter and Instagram.

Self-Driving Is Arriving Right On Time. Just Like Ice Cream Did

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Who Will Win The Self-Driving Game?

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How I Convinced My Mom to Stop Driving

Alex Roy explains why self-driving is not a race, it's a game

Why Self-Driving Isn’t a Race, It’s a Game

January 28, 2022

Who Will Win The Self-Driving Car Race? The Clues Lie In Elevator History

January 20, 2022

No Artificial Intelligence in ‘Dune’? There’s Tons of It

December 1, 2021

Why Self Racing Cars Is My Favorite Self-Driving Event Of The Year

November 5, 2021

Don’t Throw Out the Autonomous Baby With the Tesla Autopilot Bathwater

October 19, 2021

Why Putting Robotaxis on the Lyft Network Makes Sense

August 30, 2021

Driver Assistance Is to Escalators What Self-Driving Cars Are to Elevators

August 13, 2021

Why Cars With Driver Assistance Are Not Self-Driving

Roy’s Razor: It’s Not a Self-Driving Car Unless You Can Sleep In It

Why “Anywhere, Anytime” Autonomous Vehicles Make No Sense

The Top 5 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About Self-Driving Cars

Why the Depiction of AI, Drones and Autonomy in “Outside the Wire” is Almost Awesome

The Hidden Link Between Songwriting And Safety Engineering

Self-Driving Cars Need Geofences Like Flippers Need Water: The Case for Virtual Boundaries

Why Weather Prediction Is Critical For Self-Driving Vehicles

February 11, 2021

How Well Did Knight Rider Predict Autonomous Vehicles?

February 5, 2021

What Self-Driving Can Learn from a Legend of Car Culture

January 14, 2021

Why The Science Of Santa Matters

December 18, 2020

Sign with text: "No Parking, autonomous vehicles only."

Why a Cannonball Racer and Self-Driving Tech CEO Started a Podcast

December 16, 2020

Will People Watch Autonomous Car Racing? We Asked An IndyCar Driver Working On The Technology

December 10, 2020

Why would Roadkill’s Mike Finnegan come on a podcast about self-driving cars?

November 25, 2020

What A Self-Taught, Semi-Pro Drag Boat Racer Has In Common With Self-Driving Developers

November 25, 2020

How Technology and AI Made Empty NBA Games Among the Best Broadcasts in Pro Sports

November 17, 2020

How the NBA’s best play of 2020 happened off the court

November 17, 2020

Will Self-Driving Vehicles Get Me Back on a Bicycle?

November 11, 2020

How Can Autonomous Vehicles Help in a Pandemic?

October 20, 2020

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face

October 20, 2020

Alex Roy shares he — and his mom’s! — favorite episodes from No Parking Season 1

October 15, 2020

The biggest takeaways from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs

Car ownership isn’t going anywhere any time soon

The art and science of making the impossible come to life

When will self-driving cars be safe?

Cybersecurity, onions, and the most frequently asked question in AI

Could price leveling ease traffic in some major cities?

February 24, 2020

The philosophy of driving and why “city” should be a verb

February 17, 2020

Meet the Miami restaurateur serving up neighborhood revitalization

February 10, 2020

Why humanoid robots won’t take over the world

February 3, 2020

From Coachella to your commute, self-driving opens new possibilities for music

January 27, 2020

Why we can’t seem to solve road safety

January 20, 2020

This afterschool program teaches 10 year olds how to code

January 13, 2020

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Meet a DIY racing enthusiast who wants to change the world

January 6, 2020

Why a mechanic left professional racing for a self-driving startup

December 30, 2019

Defining safety and its slow-moving road to the future

December 23, 2019

Why Wakandans didn’t need cars but most of us probably do

December 16, 2019

What AVs can learn from the automation of medicine

December 9, 2019

How one film designer blends science fiction with fact

December 2, 2019

Overcoming urban mobility’s 10-foot hurdle

November 25, 2019

What it takes to send autonomous vehicles into the final frontier

November 18, 2019

How Hollywood imagines the next phase of self-driving cars

November 11, 2019

Power, personality and proselytizers in the self-driving space

November 3, 2019

Why self-driving isn’t a race and cars aren’t going anywhere

November 3, 2019

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