Astro Teller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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and came to a new conclusion that was much more business related than safety related, which was, we still have it wrong.
The mobility needs to be transformed, but that's not our job.
Our job is to make the world's best driver.
That's our job.
And there's a lot of ecosystem partners that can help us with the other parts, but what we should be great at is making the world's best driver.
And so there was like real evolution of the thinking of what Waymo wanted to be when it grew up.
And the first of those big evolution points was this crisis moment where we realized that our whole conception of like what would make it safe, that the humans would be the backup, was a terrible assumption.
And we had to abandon that.
I mean, I certainly agree that the huge problem with the world is
well described as more than a million people a year, die from car accidents that were caused by human error.
There's also more than a trillion dollars a year wasted with people sitting in traffic unnecessarily, scraping up their cars, a whole bunch of other stuff.
Human lives are more important than the trillion dollars, but you know, you can solve them both at the same time, so that's a good thing.
The radical proposed, the science fiction sounding product or service is a car that drives itself.
You said the vehicle.
Obviously, the vehicles are evolving also, but I would argue that it's a complex mix of the vehicles, the sensors, the compute, the algorithms, the data.
There's a lot of different parts that go into making the world's safest driver.
But, you know, over 16 years, we've gone from that sounds crazy to it's in 10 cities and, you know, lots of people get in Waymo's every day and have a ride, which is kind of mind blowing for the first 30 seconds.
And by the end, people are just like on their phones back to doom scrolling and not even noticing that there's nobody in the front seat.
Can I give you a different kind of example with Wing?
So because we were talking about intellectual architecture that sort of helps people past these crisis moments.
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