{"id":243070,"date":"2026-05-19T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=243070"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:51:18","slug":"from-cars-to-code-why-2026-is-the-year-of-the-robotaxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/from-cars-to-code-why-2026-is-the-year-of-the-robotaxi\/","title":{"rendered":"From Cars to Code: Why 2026 Is the Year of the Robotaxi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/heptagon-capital.com\/season-8-post-2-robotaxi-wars-1\">here<\/a> for Alex&#8217;s corresponding write-up on the &#8216;Future Trends&#8217; blog from Heptagon Capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this IBKR Podcast episode, we explore how autonomous vehicles are shifting from distant promise to present reality, with 2026 shaping up as a pivotal moment for robotaxis. Alex Gunz from Heptagon Capital joins us to break down how software, data, and AI are redefining transportation, and why the biggest winners may not be the car makers at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"From Cars to Code: Why 2026 Is the Year of the Robotaxi\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=x6gyx-1aca64f-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=ffffff&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=c73a3a\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-summary-ibkr-podcasts-ep-385\">Summary \u2013 IBKR Podcasts Ep. 385<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The following is a summary of a live audio recording and may contain errors in spelling or grammar. Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to today&#8217;s episode in which my guest is future technologist Alexander Gunz. Alex is portfolio manager at Heptagon Capital in London. Welcome back, Alex.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Always a pleasure to be on the program, Andrew.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-0\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0great having you. We always have good conversations. Alex, I want you to explain to the audience what\u00a0Autopia\u00a0is.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0a phrase that you coined back in 2015.\u00a0What is\u00a0Autopia?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-0\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, thanks again, Andrew, for having me on the show. As you know, our focus is on future trends, and we first started writing about autonomous vehicles over a decade ago, and\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0where we coined the phrase\u00a0Autopia. And the idea is that in\u00a0a future\u00a0world, and\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0still not there in 2026, we move to a situation where humans are not responsible for driving cars.\u00a0<br>They are driven by computers, and this leads to a total\u00a0reconfiguring\u00a0of urban centers. If you think about what a car is as an asset for any individual or for a business, it is something that is typically not used for about 90% of the day. It is also a massively depreciating asset. As\u00a0we&#8217;ll\u00a0come on to talk about, cars are a major cause of death and accident.\u00a0So\u00a0in this\u00a0Autopian\u00a0world, many of those problems or issues that we highlighted are simply resolved. And we are&#8230; The good news is we are creeping ever closer towards\u00a0Autopia\u00a0simply because technology is improving. You just need to listen to someone like Jensen\u00a0at\u00a0N-Nvidia. We all know about AI, but when you think about physical or embodied AI,\u00a0perhaps the\u00a0best use case that we see today is that in the autonomous vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-1\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And just an FYI, Alex, when I typed\u00a0Autopia\u00a0into Microsoft Word, I got the red underlining, which says\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0not a word.\u00a0So\u00a0you&#8217;ve &#8230; Next time we speak, you&#8217;ve\u00a0gotta\u00a0have that\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-1\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to copyright it, don&#8217;t we? Yeah\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-2\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0So\u00a0Alex\u00a0you described 2026 as the year of the robotaxi and say the industry&#8217;s reached an inflection point.\u00a0<br>What&#8217;s\u00a0changed recently that moved autonomous vehicles from that long-term vision into something that suddenly feels inevitable?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-2\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the simple answer, Andrew, is really just proof of concept.\u00a0So, if you are in San Francisco, I was there about six months ago, you will see an increasing number of robotaxis. I believe\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0being rolled out in&#8211; or\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0present, I should say, in something in the order of 20 cities in the United States now.\u00a0<br>Trials are taking place in London. You can see other trials underway in cities in Europe such as Berlin, in\u00a0Tokyo,\u00a0and also\u00a0in the Middle East.\u00a0So\u00a0we are seeing increased visibility, and visibility naturally breeds familiarity. What&#8211; why are we seeing more robotaxis? We answered this to a certain extent in the prior opening comments, and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0simply because the technology has\u00a0got\u00a0better.\u00a0In other words,\u00a0the cars\u00a0are more robust,\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0more reliable. And then as\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0seen with any other technology,\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0talked about this on\u00a0previous\u00a0programs and\u00a0previous\u00a0formats, as\u00a0the industry scales, costs come down. So\u00a0actually\u00a0taking a Waymo in San Francisco is not dissimilar in price to taking an Uber.\u00a0<br>And I\u00a0think really\u00a0what the evidence shows, the number of miles driven without accident, is that this is an increasingly robust and valid form of transport. And it\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0matter whether\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0a lovely sunny day whether\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0dark, whether\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0raining these vehicles work. And\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0seeing\u00a0more and more\u00a0use cases extend, whether\u00a0it&#8217;s in snow\u00a0in a city like Denver, whether\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0picking up and dropping off at airports where you have\u00a0lots and lots of\u00a0vehicles.\u00a0<br>And I think, again, more use cases naturally will breed more demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-3\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And then of course there&#8217;s public opinion. So public opinion around driverless cars\u00a0seems\u00a0to flip\u00a0perhaps once\u00a0people have\u00a0actually taken\u00a0a ride in one. From your own first Waymo experience, what do you think skeptics underestimate most about autonomous vehicles?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-3\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think your point is an absolutely excellent one, Andrew, and the statistics really are quite remarkable.\u00a0If you take a city like San Francisco, really this is the ground zero, if you will, for where autonomous vehicles are being trialed, and\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0obviously right by Silicon Valley. Prior to them being rolled out, two-thirds of local residents were against the idea.\u00a0<br>Fast-forward onto today, two-thirds are in favor. That&#8217;s a massive step change, and an equally different survey we published that we commented on this in our own published work, is that if you compare impressions of someone who has ridden in an autonomous vehicle compared to someone who hasn&#8217;t, the favorable versus unfavorable ratio is about 50 percentage points higher.\u00a0So simply having\u00a0a good experience\u00a0will, as we said,\u00a0drive further demand. And really the main reason I believe, we believe, why anyone would\u00a0likely make\u00a0that choice\u00a0above and beyond\u00a0a financial\u00a0consideration is simply one of safety. And this is a point that cannot be stressed too heavily.\u00a0<br>If you think about it globally auto accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and this is an NHTSA figure. It is the leading cause of death for people aged between five and 29. And so you compare what an autonomous vehicle is like compared to any human, even if they say\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0an experienced driver.\u00a0So\u00a0if\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0in an autonomous vehicle, you have\u00a0360-degree vision. You will have redundancy built into the car. In other words, if one sensor or lidar or camera breaks or gets damaged, there will be backups. Equally, your computer will not be texting\u00a0whilst\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0driving.\u00a0Some people are clearly guilty of that. It\u00a0won&#8217;t\u00a0be drinking\u00a0whilst\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0driving. It\u00a0won&#8217;t\u00a0get distracted while\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0driving. And for all those reasons and simply as we said, these vehicles\u00a0operating\u00a0in multiple different weather conditions, traffic conditions, that will\u00a0really\u00a0I think, help win over the skeptics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-4\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex, you make\u00a0a strong case\u00a0that autonomous vehicles could save lives and reshape cities by freeing space, reducing congestion, and rethinking urban design.\u00a0What&#8217;s\u00a0the most surprising second order effect you expect if robotaxis scale quickly?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-4\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. Again, another great question, Andrew, and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0still incredibly early days. But I think, you know, there is another fundamental difference we should highlight in an autonomous vehicle compared to a conventional car or taxi, is that whereas humans, people who may own cars or Uber drivers, they will just naturally, by definition, get tired.\u00a0<br>They&#8217;ll\u00a0need to take a break. The car, any car in use to transport people from A to\u00a0B will\u00a0be off the road for a given period of time. The\u00a0great thing\u00a0about autonomous vehicles is that they can\u00a0be operating\u00a0almost constantly. Obviously, they need to be refueled, they need to be cleaned, but the amount of time they can be in use is much higher than for conventional vehicles.\u00a0That&#8217;s\u00a0great news. What it\u00a0basically means, and because\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0more efficient in terms of getting from A to B,\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0got a map built in,\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0got an algorithm that will route you more efficiently than any human driver could\u00a0possibly do. What this will imply is less congestion, so cleaner, emptier streets.\u00a0<br>That should boost pedestrianism. It could boost cycling as well. It will make for healthier, less polluted cities. Equally, if you think about parking, if we\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0need to park cars because\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0in constant use, if there is potentially a higher substitution effect why drive? Why own this depreciating asset when you can simply get in a vehicle\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0operated\u00a0by a computer?\u00a0<br>You can play your own music.\u00a0It&#8217;s much, much safer for all of the reasons we talked about.\u00a0So\u00a0all of\u00a0that\u00a0in terms of second-order consequences, not only will we have cleaner cities, but\u00a0we&#8217;ll\u00a0also arguably have more spacious cities. So those areas that were car parks can potentially be turned into parks or greener urban spaces.\u00a0<br>If\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0a big building and\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0got one story\u00a0allocated\u00a0to a car park, that could become a gym, it could become a wellness space.\u00a0So\u00a0I think, you know, the second-order benefits, and again,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0part of this vision of\u00a0Autopia\u00a0that\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0talked about, really could be how shall I put it?\u00a0More\u00a0consumer friendly\u00a0cleaner, healthier cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-5\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what it would do to overall demand for car\u00a0production\u00a0though, Alex.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-5\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I think\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0a that,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0a fair question, and you know,\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0sure\u00a0we&#8217;ll\u00a0come on to talk in a little bit about the value chain and where the value most\u00a0accrues. But when\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0thinking about second-order implications, there are&#8211; these extend\u00a0way beyond\u00a0just the auto industry. Think about insurance. Think about businesses that\u00a0operate\u00a0car parks. Think about businesses like Avis and other hire companies. I think, you know, we should obviously\u00a0caveat\u00a0by saying\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0not a matter of clicking your\u00a0fingers and\u00a0and\u00a0moving to\u00a0autopia\u00a0overnight. As I said,\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0been talking about this for a decade plus. But I think over the longer term, you know, just like\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0seen in other industries, look where&#8217;s Blockbuster today? It\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0exist. People use Netflix or Amazon instead. We may well see some consequences like that play out too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-6\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u00a0despite the rapid progress,\u00a0you&#8217;re\u00a0clear that just one single high-profile accident or cyber failure could slow adoption dramatically. In your view,\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0the biggest unresolved risk that could still derail the road to\u00a0autopia?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-6\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think there\u00a0are,\u00a0I think there\u00a0are many risks, Andrew, and the&#8230;\u00a0perhaps the\u00a0biggest one is if you just think\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0a numbers game. So yes, you will be&#8230; y- the number of vehicles has gone up tenfold in the last two years. But in the US today, my best guess would be\u00a0probably fewer\u00a0than 5,000 autonomous vehicles, a similar number\u00a0probably in\u00a0China.\u00a0So\u00a0in the grand scheme of things, when there are about 1.3 billion cars in the world, that&#8217;s absolutely tiny. I guess what&#8230; why\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0sharing those figures is simply to make the point that autonomous vehicles or the autonomous industry has yet to be proven or tested at scale. That is the number one consideration. The second, as you alluded to, is this one high-profile accident. There is still a huge gap, I sense, between\u00a0perception\u00a0and reality. We said once people have been in these vehicles, once people have seen them around,\u00a0the familiarity\u00a0breeds comfort. And then think about what happened in San Francisco in December, what happened in\u00a0I believe it\u00a0was Wuhan or a big city in China last month. If you have some sort of technical or electrical failure and your fleet of autonomous vehicles\u00a0suddenly grin-\u00a0grinds to a halt,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0something which can cause a lot of problems. It can create a lot of discomfort. It can have a very damaging impact on\u00a0perception. And then I guess the\u00a0final point\u00a0I&#8217;d\u00a0make, which sort of segues naturally from the prior one, is think about it like this. You know, we have talked on prior programs, Andrew, and\u00a0pretty much every\u00a0time we discuss future trends, you know, in any sense, it\u00a0begins\u00a0and it ends with data. Our very first thematic piece said, &#8220;Look, data will have zero value unless you secure\u00a0it,\u00a0you store it, and you analyze it.&#8221; And then think about it like this. What is an autonomous vehicle? Crudely speaking,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0a computer on wheels.\u00a0So\u00a0imagine a scenario where a bad actor, a malicious actor, compromises a vehicle and that causes an accident, it causes a standstill.\u00a0That could potentially have a very damaging effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-7\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the competitive landscape where players such as Waymo, Tesla,\u00a0Zoox, and Uber, and also the wider tech stack, where do you think the real value ultimately accrues? Is it owning\u00a0the vehicles, controlling the software, or aggregating demand?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-7\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Great question. Simple answer, Andrew,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0simply too early to know.\u00a0That- that&#8217;s\u00a0not a cop-out for a few reasons. I guess, point one would be, as we said,\u00a0look,\u00a0the industry is still in a very nascent stage. Point two is,\u00a0look\u00a0the early leaders are not always the ultimate winners. I mean, think about what&#8211; rewind twenty-five\u00a0years,\u00a0most people you knew\u00a0probably had\u00a0an AOL internet account. Where&#8217;s AOL today?\u00a0So\u00a0I think\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0an important element\u00a0of caution to have. I guess the third point would be, at least if the industry,\u00a0the au-\u00a0autonomous vehicle industry follows the precedent of other industries, then to our mind, the most value will\u00a0accrue\u00a0highest up the stack.\u00a0So\u00a0in other words, when you think about what\u00a0is the most proprietary element in all of this, what takes the time it is not building the vehicle. Indeed, even if you take Waymo today, their vehicles are either Jaguar or Hyundai vehicles.\u00a0They&#8217;ll\u00a0be buying in the\u00a0the\u00a0LIDAR, the cameras, the\u00a0sensors from OEMs. That the value\u00a0add\u00a0or the secret sauce, if you will, is in the algorithm. So\u00a0actually\u00a0telling the car, &#8220;Look, if there&#8217;s a, I don&#8217;t\u00a0know\u00a0a\u00a0ball r-\u00a0rolls across the road, you need to stop,&#8221; even if\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0never seen a ball in the real world before. Having the algorithm that does that, if you think\u00a0about it,\u00a0it, it&#8211; like with any AI, this is self-improving. The more miles you drive, the better you should get at it, the more unpredictable scenarios you can\u00a0possibly attempt\u00a0to preempt.\u00a0So\u00a0we think the people who own the software, the people who own the algorithms, who sit highest up the stack, potentially are the biggest beneficiaries. I, I guess the final point I&#8217;d make in this discussion, Andrew, would be again, if you think about conversations we&#8217;ve had about other future trends, one of the approaches we often deploy and think about, try and think about intelligently at Heptagon Capital is owning the metaphorical shovel makers rather than the actual miners.\u00a0So\u00a0in other words, again, come back to this principle: what is an autonomous vehicle? It is a computer on wheels.\u00a0So therefore, actually having the semiconductor architecture, the storage systems for that data if autonomous vehicles are a big data exercise, then companies that play in those fields clearly should benefit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-8\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Brilliant. Alex, you mentioned the thematic notes. Where can people learn more?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-8\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All the output we have produced is on our website, so that is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heptagon-capital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.heptagon-capital.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-9\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovely. Alexander Gunz, portfolio manager at Heptagon Capital in London. Thank you very much for joining me today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alex-gunz-9\">Alex Gunz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks again, Andrew.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-10\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And to the audience, if you enjoyed today&#8217;s podcast,\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0forget to tell everybody. Share it, like it and subscribe wherever you download your podcasts from. 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