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The Gear Patrol Podcast is our weekly roundtable discussion focused on products, their stories, and the culture surrounding them.

Today we’re talking about IKEA’s new buy-back-for-store-credit program, which is being piloted in Pennsylvania as part of the company’s “circular company” plan; Spotify’s latest product and feature launches, including “Blend” and a partnership with Philips Hue lights; and the impending reality of autonomous taxis, heralded by Hyundai’s Ioniq 5, due to hit streets in 2023.

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Episode Navigation:

2:35 – IKEA Buy Back Program Being Piloted in Pennsylvania

22:05 – Spotify Adds a Ton of New Features, Expanding its Market Dominance

32:30 – Hyundai Debuts its Ioniq 5 Robo-Taxi, Due Out in 2023

Featured and Related:

• Ikea is launching a furniture buyback program – Fast Company
• Buy Back program – IKEA
• Inside Ikea’s plan to reinvent itself as a circular company – Fast Company
• How Ikea plans to be climate positive by 2030 – Fast Company
• Ikea’s Offering to Buy Back Your Old Furniture—If It Can Survive the Journey – Gizmodo
• IKEA Is Now Selling a Hot New Product: Renewable Energy – Architectural Digest
• IKEA Is Increasing Refunds on Returned and Unwanted Office Furniture by 50 Percent This Week – Concrete Playground
• New Spotify Feature Will Make You and Your BFF a Playlist of Songs You’ll Both Like – Gizmodo
• Spotify is taking over Delta’s entire in-flight audio section – Engadget
• Philips Hue partners with Spotify to turn all your lights into a music visualizer – The Verge
• How Spotify’s Newest Personalized Experience, Blend, Creates a Playlist for You and Your Bestie – Spotify
• Spotify’s Podcasts Subscriptions service is now open to all US creators – Tech Crunch
• In early 2020, Spotify accounted for 30% of global streaming service usage – Statista
• Hyundai reveals self-driving Ioniq 5 ‘robotaxi’ – Autocar
• Autonomous Tech Developer Motional Unveils Hyundai Ioniq 5-Based Robotaxi – Forbes
• Hyundai reveals the robotaxi it built for Lyft, and a version for its very own metaverse – The Register
• Motional reveals its Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric robotaxi – Tech Crunch
• Motional website
• Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco – The Verge
• Waymo Is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest – Autoblog
• Tesla Crashes Into Police Cruiser. Self-Driving Cars Have to Learn how to Drive. – Barron’s
• Volvo invests in Israeli developer of testing platform for autonomous vehicles – The Times of Israel
• Rainbow road sign film would be easier for autonomous vehicles to read – New Atlas
• Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits visually impaired athlete – The Guardian

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