Alex Roy

I'm a New Yorker.

I'm born and bred.

But there are a lot of places where it's just not feasible.

And so if you eliminate even a minority of crashes, you make traffic more efficient, and you reduce the cost of insurance and disruption and injury,

This is a huge burden to remove from society, and it's fantastic.

I'll give you an example in my personal life.

My mother was unable to drive for many years because she had dementia, and she wanted to shop, she wanted to go outside.

But instead of being able to get around, she had to have a home health aide, which then had to bring a car or get in taxis.

It was a huge cost and time burden on our family.

My mother hated it, but that goes away if there's an autonomous vehicle that could deliver an aide that does not have to have a car of their own.

And doesn't have to think about driving.

And doesn't have to worry about safety.

And can just help her with the bags.

And so there are startups that are coming into existence now that are purely in the support and assistance industry.

Think Uber for help.

And they won't need to bring cars.

They won't have to park.

So parking will go away.

There are so many burdens on society caused by personal car ownership.

that will be eliminated when autonomy is ubiquitous.