
November 25, 2020
Why would Roadkill’s Mike Finnegan come on a podcast about self-driving cars?
Alex Roy
It might seem crazy that Mike Finnegan — host of one of America’s most popular car enthusiast shows — would sit down with Bryan Salesky, founder of one of the...

November 17, 2020
How the NBA’s best play of 2020 happened off the court
Alex Roy
One of the most interesting things about working in tech is all the effort that goes into just making things work

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December 10, 2020
Will People Watch Autonomous Car Racing? Ask An IndyCar Driver Working On The Technology
Alex Roy
For the last few years people have been trying to sell me on the idea of autonomous race cars. I understand the appeal of Chris Andersons’s DIY Robocar ser...

November 25, 2020
Why would Roadkill’s Mike Finnegan come on a podcast about self-driving cars?
Alex Roy
It might seem crazy that Mike Finnegan — host of one of America’s most popular car enthusiast shows — would sit down with Bryan Salesky, founder of one of the world’s largest self-driving technology companies, but it really isn’t. If car culture and autom...

November 17, 2020
How the NBA’s best play of 2020 happened off the court
Alex Roy
One of the most interesting things about working in tech is all the effort that goes into just making things work. The more I learn, the more I think that science fiction author Ar...

November 11, 2020
Will self-driving vehicles get me back on a bicycle?
Alex Roy
If you ride a bicycle in an American city, chances are you’ve got a story. Mine starts with not learning how to ride until I was 22. But I had a good reason. I grew up in Manhatt...

October 20, 2020
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face
Alex Roy
My dad never graduated college, but he was full of wisdom. Imagine the worst case scenario, he liked to say, then plan around it

October 15, 2020
Alex Roy shares he — and his mom’s! — favorite episodes from No Parking Season 1
Alex Roy
Now that the new season of No Parking is upon us, a lot of people have been asking me what episodes of Season 1 they should check out so they know what to expect. Here’s my top five: 1. Everyone, especially my mom...

March 30, 2020
The biggest takeaways from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs
Alex Roy
Several people have emailed me asking why—if the No Parking Podcast is supposed to be about autonomous vehicles—we occasionally have guests from outside the transportation sector. It’s because there are already great podcasts focused on autonomous technology, but there aren’t any great po...

March 23, 2020
Car ownership isn’t going anywhere any time soon
Alex Roy
I totally buy that autonomous vehicles will someday make our streets safer. What I don’t buy is that car ownership will completely evaporate, because I’m not convinced a car-free lifestyle works for everyone. So you can imagine my reaction when Kara Swisher, host of Vox Media’s Recode and P...

March 16, 2020
The art and science of making the impossible come to life
Alex Roy
One of the biggest misconceptions about self-driving cars is that we’re going to wake up one day, and they’re going to be everywhere. No matter how well it works in a lab, it can never scale unless someone builds a successful business around it. From shipping to elevators, railroads, electric...