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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.
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
January 20, 2022
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
December 1, 2021
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
November 5, 2021
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
October 19, 2021
Business

Why Putting Robotaxis on the Lyft Network Makes Sense

By Alex Roy
August 30, 2021
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
August 13, 2021
Opinion

Why Cars With Driver Assistance Are Not Self-Driving

By Alex Roy
July 30, 2021
Self-Driving

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

By Alex Roy
July 23, 2021
Opinion

Why “Anywhere, Anytime” Autonomous Vehicles Make No Sense

By Alex Roy
June 10, 2021
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
April 1, 2021
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
March 26, 2021
Opinion

The Hidden Link Between Songwriting And Safety Engineering

By Alex Roy
March 9, 2021
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
March 5, 2021
Self-Driving

Why Weather Prediction Is Critical For Self-Driving Vehicles

By Alex Roy
February 11, 2021
Entertainment

How Well Did Knight Rider Predict Autonomous Vehicles?

By Alex Roy
February 5, 2021
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
January 14, 2021
Entertainment

Why The Science Of Santa Matters

By Alex Roy
December 18, 2020
Sign with text: "No Parking, autonomous vehicles only."
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
December 16, 2020
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
December 10, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
November 25, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
November 25, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
November 17, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
November 17, 2020
Opinion

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

By Alex Roy
November 11, 2020
Opinion

How Can Autonomous Vehicles Help in a Pandemic?

By Alex Roy
October 20, 2020
Entertainment

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face

By Alex Roy
October 20, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
October 15, 2020
Entertainment

The biggest takeaways from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs

By Alex Roy
March 30, 2020
Entertainment

Car ownership isn’t going anywhere any time soon

By Alex Roy
March 23, 2020
Entertainment

The art and science of making the impossible come to life

By Alex Roy
March 16, 2020
Entertainment

When will self-driving cars be safe?

By Alex Roy
March 9, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
March 2, 2020
Entertainment

Could price leveling ease traffic in some major cities?

By Alex Roy
February 24, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
February 17, 2020
Entertainment

Meet the Miami restaurateur serving up neighborhood revitalization

By Alex Roy
February 10, 2020
Entertainment

Why humanoid robots won’t take over the world

By Alex Roy
February 3, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
January 27, 2020
Entertainment

Why we can’t seem to solve road safety

By Alex Roy
January 20, 2020
Entertainment

This afterschool program teaches 10 year olds how to code

By Alex Roy
January 13, 2020
Entertainment

Meet a DIY racing enthusiast who wants to change the world

By Alex Roy
January 6, 2020
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
December 30, 2019
Entertainment

Defining safety and its slow-moving road to the future

By Alex Roy
December 23, 2019
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
December 16, 2019
Entertainment

What AVs can learn from the automation of medicine

By Alex Roy
December 9, 2019
Entertainment

How one film designer blends science fiction with fact

By Alex Roy
December 2, 2019
Entertainment

Overcoming urban mobility’s 10-foot hurdle

By Alex Roy
November 25, 2019
Entertainment

What it takes to send autonomous vehicles into the final frontier

By Alex Roy
November 18, 2019
Entertainment

How Hollywood imagines the next phase of self-driving cars

By Alex Roy
November 11, 2019
Entertainment

Power, personality and proselytizers in the self-driving space

By Alex Roy
November 3, 2019
Entertainment

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

By Alex Roy
November 3, 2019
Entertainment

Why we created the No Parking Podcast

By Alex Roy
January 1, 1970
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