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FoT is the intelligence arm of Trucks Venture Capital. Through our active monitoring of emerging transportation founders and ideas, we have built the best resources for understanding where the world is moving.

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Investment Memos
December 14, 2017

Repairing Cars Over-the-Air (Why we invested in Aurora Labs)

The idea of over-the-air (OTA) updates isn’t new to those who have a smartphone or follow Tesla’s trajectory: instead of requiring the…

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January 1, 2017

Metrics of a Mobility CEO: Revenue/Mile, Disengagements, Uptime, & Active Credit Cards

What happens when the large automotive companies, who are all flirting with mobility divisions, measure their success the way they have always measured success? They get crushed.

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October 27, 2016

Unification is the Automobile Industry’s Path to Mobility

It’s not difficult for us to visit each other in Detroit and San Francisco. We don’t own a plane. We don’t maintain the plane. We don’t worry if there is gas in the plane. We don’t consider the most optimal flight route. We ...

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August 9, 2016

‘Machine Earning’ in AVs: Increasing the utilization of vehicles' quite watchdogs

Although sensors are on 100% of the time the vehicle is running, they’re primarily doing the job of a quiet watchdog.

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July 4, 2016

A compendium of Tesla Semi-Autonomous "Autopilot" perspectives

There were hundreds of reactions to the news of Joshua Brown’s death, as it appears that it occurred while his Tesla was operating in its semi-autonomous ‘Autopilot’ mode.

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