Who better to talk about where the auto industry is headed than an engineer’s engineer?Ever get the chance to finally chat with someone whose story you think you know, but then it turns out they've led an even more fantastic life than you imagined? That's how it was with our guest this week, mechanical/motorsports/autonomous driving/robotics engineer, test driver, journalist, swimmer, and mother, Merritt Morris.
As we discuss on the vodcast, Merritt's career intersects with the editorial arcs of both Jonny Lieberman and I. After securing a mechanical engineering degree from one of the finest universities in the world and an internship at NASA, Merritt got her start in the automotive aftermarket in the early 2000s at two big names in the high performance space, AEM and Turbonetics.
From small companies to the biggest of the big, air intakes and turbos to hybrids and EVs, racing GT-Rs to testing autonomous Canoos, Merritt has nearly done it all and is uniquely positioned to comment on where the auto industry is headed from an engineering perspective. It's a fascinating conversation with a super smarty pants who is even starting to write stories for us, like