Blue Door podcast: The environmental benefits of connected transportation

David Owens, Darwin’s head of technical trials and chief pilot, went on O2 Business’s Blue Door podcast this week to talk about the environmental benefits of connected transportation.

You can listen to Blue Door episode 27, ‘COP26 – Connectivity creating better transport options’, over here. The entire thing is worth listening to; it’s only half an hour, and David, who has over forty years of telecommunications experience, gives interesting insight into this important area of sustainability.

Between the 17.30 and 21.40 marks, David and the host Danny Hicks talk about the Darwin SatCom Lab and the work we’re doing here. They touch on subjects including:

• the Renault Twizys we’ve converted into autonomous vehicles
• the different ways autonomous vehicles ‘see’, including LiDAR
• the problem of insuring autonomous vehicles, and how we’ve partnered with Aviva to help solve it
• the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle
• how Darwin is aiming to create a ‘network of networks’ by combining satellites and terrestrial base stations
• our ubiquitous communications trial in Cornwall

O2 Business’s Blue Door podcast is a weekly technology and business podcast that often looks to the future. If you’re interested in more discussions like this, you can find previous episodes over here.

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