Alex Bores
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694 appearances
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2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
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It's a tough and ongoing question that the speed of the transition only makes worse.
There are ways of, again, maybe you require a medallion for Waymo's for a set amount of time, and that's what enables some bit of transition.
But then you're only protecting the medallion owners and not the drivers, right?
But that's maybe a piece of what that transition looks like, especially for those that have gone into a huge amount of debt to buy that medallion.
You think about job retraining and other places that can go in.
You think about a broader safety net.
But we don't have a full policy solution for any sort of disruption that happens this quickly.
It just hasn't been developed yet.
And we need people in government that are willing to take that problem seriously and look for solutions that aren't just stop or go because this technology is coming.
Well, I've said a few different options and things that we can do together, which is the medallions.
I think you can specifically be focused on job retraining and on people who are displaced, and you can try to share the benefits in that way is a portion of that answer that we have to go to.
But the real question is, should we be investing in Waymos or in public transit?
Like, we have a great system to move people around, and we actually need an investment in improving that.
So I took a Waymo for the first time in L.A., and it was...
A light rain for New York City standards, but I think a thunderstorm for LA standards.
And I got in the Waymo and it went 20 feet and it pulled over to the side of the road and just said, dialing support.
Didn't say what, no, why it was calling, et cetera.
And I found out later, it turns out almost every Waymo in the city had done it at the same time because it couldn't handle rain.
And so support timed out.
And I was sitting there for 12 minutes and
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