Azeem Azhar

Of course, it was in Atlanta and Austin, but now we've seen announcements in New York and a bunch of others.

So they've got their operational design right, they've got their standard operating processes, and they're able to expand very, very quickly.

I didn't at the time talk about

Tesla's robo taxis, which have just started operation in Austin.

Just a note on that, because the Tesla

approach the tesla modality is different to the waymo modality the waymo requires lots of sensors most famously lidar they have a very very strong safety culture in waymo from the time i've spent with them within the tesla what you have is just the use of cameras but you do have tons of data

And so you have these two competing approaches.

Tesla is end-to-end deep learning, use of cameras.

Waymo has a different architecture, uses many, many more sensors.

Tesla has driven fewer miles autonomously, but has more data from miles driven.

And it's going to be very interesting to see how those two models work.

play out over time and how they end up converging.

You know, I expect Waymo is feeling a little bit of competitive heat here and will aim to go faster as a result of that Tesla announcement.

So I got that one right as well, or so far I've got it right.

In fact, what ChatGPT says is not yet because they haven't yet surpassed Lyft, but we're only halfway through the year.

So then the next one was on climate extremes and seeing climate extremes absolutely intensify.

through storms and wildfires.

And this year, we have seen record-breaking climate disasters.

Last year was Canada's most expensive.

And if you look at some of the temperature anomaly data that you can still find on X, you see some quite frightening numbers in different parts of the world where there are really high, high anomalies.