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Grayson Brulte

Founder & Host, The Road to Autonomy

Search every verified Grayson Brulte interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Grayson Brulte, founder and host of The Road to Autonomy, has recently published a series of field reports and podcast episodes focused on autonomous vehicle operations. He has conducted field testing in cities including Nashville, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and San Francisco, documenting his experiences riding in Waymo vehicles at airports and cultural sites, as well as testing delivery robots from LastFeet. In these reports, he described the convenience of Waymo's curbside airport pickups in San Antonio and Nashville, while contrasting those experiences with the longer walks required at San Francisco International Airport. He also reported riding in a Tesla Cybercab in Austin and stated he was impressed by the experience. On his podcast Autonomy Markets, Brulte has discussed industry developments including Waymo's fleet expansion plans and debt raise, Tesla's Cybercab launch and NHTSA audit, and Uber's robotaxi partnerships. He has shared his views that Waymo will operate unsupervised service in London by the first quarter of next year and that Tesla is positioned as a leader in the U.S. robotaxi market alongside Waymo. He has also interviewed executives and experts, including NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison and Arm's Dermot O'Driscoll, covering topics such as federal AV regulation, physical AI, and manufacturing standards.

Recent appearances

  • Waymo Is Accelerating Robotaxi Deployments. Who's Trying to Stop It?

    October 24, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Grayson's new field reports from Nashville, Dallas and Houston, Tesla’s earnings call, Waymo’s accelerating fleet growth and the mysterious group trying to stop robotaxis in Washington, DC. 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... --------------------------- This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss field reports from Nashville, Dallas and Houston, takeaways from Tesla’s earnings call, Waymo’s accelerating fleet growth, a mysterious effort to…

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  • Rothko Chapel Field Report

    October 23, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    During field work in Houston, Grayson Brulte took a Waymo Ojai to explore the historic Rothko Chapel and the surrounding Menil Collection. 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... --------------------------- During field work in Houston, Grayson Brulte took an autonomous Waymo Ojai to visit the Rothko Chapel, located in a quiet residential neighborhood. The journey highlights how autonomous vehicles can seamlessly connect riders to cultural landmarks within Waymo's local service area. The Rothko Chapel opened on February 26, 1971, but arti…

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  • Balancing Innovation and Safety on America's Roads

    October 22, 2026 · 📺 SAE International

    NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison discusses the future of roadway safety, autonomous vehicle regulation, and mobility innovation. We explore how NHTSA is modernizing vehicle safety standards, advancing crash test technology, addressing dangerous driving behaviors, and working with industry to support the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. ------------------------------------------ What does it take to make our roads safer while still paving the way for AVs? Listen in as we sit down with Jonathan Morrison, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),…

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  • Scaling Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles with Arm

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    Dermot O'Driscoll, Arm joined Grayson Brulte to discuss how low-power compute architecture is unlocking the $200 billion physical AI market across robotics and autonomous vehicles. --------------------------- Dermot O'Driscoll, Vice President, Go-To-Market, Physical AI, Arm, joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss scaling Physical AI across the automotive and robotics markets. Arm is positioning its energy-efficient compute architecture at every layer of Physical AI, leveraging 30 years of automotive IP safety expertise alongside its mobile power-efficiency heritage…

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  • Waymo San Antonio International Airport Field Report

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    At San Antonio International Airport, Waymo picks you up right at the curb, and the entire experience is a blue print for airports around the world. 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... --------------------------- At San Antonio International Airport (SAT), Waymo picks up and drops-off passengers at the curb. No train and no long walk, just a short walk from the terminal to the Waymo. In this Field Report, Grayson Brulte was dropped off curbside at Terminal B and walked straight to TSA. On the return, he followed the signs for ground tran…

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  • Robotaxis Go Curbside at Airports as Uber’s Robotaxi Boss Heads for the Exit

    October 17, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss robotaxis going curbside at airports, Sarfraz Maredia’s exit from Uber and whether Tesla’s Cybercabs have earned the green check mark in Austin. 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... 📄 Read the Full Transcript & Analysis: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/transc... --------------------------- This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss new field reports from San Antonio and Dallas, management turnover at Uber, Tesla's Cybercab progress in Austin and upcoming Dallas expansion…

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  • Standardizing Aircraft Data for Smarter Maintenance

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 SAE International

    What if every aircraft in a fleet could speak the same data language? Listen in as we sit down with SAE Committee Members Robert Taylor, Senior Solutions Architect at Bell Flight, and Dave Larsen, Senior Technical Fellow, PHM Systems at Collins Aerospace, explore how the AS7140 standard is creating a more unified approach to aircraft health and usage monitoring data. Instead of relying on numerous proprietary formats, AS7140 establishes a common data structure that can make information easier to access, compare, and analyze across platforms. This standardized data can help operators identif…

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  • Waymo Grand Hyatt at SFO Pickup Field Report

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    We walked 24 minutes from the United terminal to catch a Waymo at the Grand Hyatt at SFO, paid a $5 fee for a missed pickup, and still was well worth it. 📄 Read the Field Report: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/waymo-... 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... --------------------------- At San Francisco International Airport (SFO), Waymo can not pickup or drop-off passengers at the curb. Instead they have two options, the Grand Hyatt or the rental car center. In this Field Report we walked and rode in the AirTrain for 24 minutes from the U…

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  • Waymo Goes to Wall Street

    October 10, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    This week’s Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Waymo’s $5 billion debt raise, the latest Field Reports from Las Vegas and London's emergence as an Autonomy Capital. 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... 📄 Read the Full Transcript & Analysis: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/transc... --------------------------- This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Waymo’s first ever debt raise, the latest The Road to Autonomy Field Reports and the emergence of London as an autonomy capital. Grays…

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  • How DED Is Transforming Aerospace Manufacturing

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 SAE International

    Laser powder directed energy deposition (DED) is transforming aerospace manufacturing by making it possible to build, repair, and modify large-scale metal components faster and with greater design flexibility. Hear from Tyler Blumenthal, Sales Manager at RPM Innovations, as he explains how DED is advancing metal additive manufacturing, reducing production timelines, overcoming aerospace supply chain challenges, and expanding from space and defense applications into broader commercial aerospace manufacturing. ------------------------------------------- From rocket engines to aircraft, laser p…

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  • LastFeet Autonomous Delivery Field Report

    October 07, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    Grayson Brulte headed to Palo Alto to test LastFeet’s autonomous robot, as it climbs stairs, dodges obstacles, and delivered packages from the van to the door, solving the last 50 foot problem. --------------------------- Grayson Brulte headed to Palo Alto and rode along with LastFeet's autonomous delivery robot, Boxer, conducting field tests in residential neighborhoods and across the Stanford University campus. While testing, Boxer navigated complex real-world environments, stepping over garden hoses, maneuvering around Halloween decorations, climbing porch stairs, and even traversin…

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  • We Found Atoms, Rode Wayve and Watched Uber’s Autonomy Clock Speed Up

    October 03, 2026 · 📺 The Road to Autonomy

    Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Grayson's San Francisco field work, from riding in a supervised Wayve autonomous vehicle on the freeway with zero interventions, finding Travis Kalanick's Atoms autonomous vehicles and Dara Khosrowshahi's unsupervised ride in Zagreb and what it means for Uber's autonomy timeline. --------------------------- 📄 Read the Full Transcript & Analysis: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/transc... 📄 Follow Waymo on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautonomy.com/ro... 📄 Follow Wayve on The Road to Autonomy Indices: https://indices.roadtoautono…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“What I saw and what I experienced in Nashville and what I experienced in San Antonio, I'm gonna say this for the record: Uber has a serious problem coming. These Waymos are going into the airports. To give you an example here, at BNA, Nashville Airport, from the door to the Waymo pickup area — because we do things here right — two minutes and 20 seconds. I timed it. And how Waymo struck this deal, I don't know, but T”

“From my outward observations, and I gotta say, if this was Lyft that did this, or Flex tried to do this, or Waymo that did this, I'm gonna give you credit. I don't like this, but I'm gonna give you credit. Well, it was the most secure depot we've been to. It's built into a hill. You can't see much, but have no fear, the inspector saw quite a bit and there's gonna be a field report coming on that. It was like a James ”

“NHTSA's required to establish maximum feasible fuel economy standards, and and you do that by balancing competing factors. There's technological feasibility, economic practicability, impact that other regulations of the government might have on the fuel economy, and the need of the nation to conserve energy. The statute also says that we are supposed to have these standards for traditional gasoline or diesel-powered ”

“We have taken a concerted effort of evaluating our Federal Motor Safety Standards, looking for blockers to innovation, and new designs that are enabled by the technologies of tomorrow of automated vehicles, for instance. You know, so many of our standards have references or even specific mandates to manual controls. And so, these are this is a major priority of ours is to identify what those mandates are, and then to”

“I would summarize it in a very simple way: Arm enables companies that use your architecture to scale. I mean, you have some very public customers who are scaling rapidly using your IP and your technology on the physical AI side.”

“The signals, we don't necessarily know what the signals are in general. There is one signal that I will point out. Ben and I actually discussed it over lunch, is you, in my opinion, will not be able to scale a personally owned autonomous vehicle with maps. Point blank, I'm sorry, Mary Barra, GM, you're never gonna be able to scale a personally owned autonomous vehicle with maps. Two reasons why. If you don't map the ”

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