Barry Lund

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The Big Tech Show · Self-driving cars are coming and Ireland is getting ready · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

It's still, you know, there's a big infrastructural side to it, right?

Yeah, and that's coming down, right?

So generationally, what tends to happen with each generation of Waymo is you have a new vehicle kind of thing, and then you have a new sensor set up.

So it's public information.

They've moved on to a Chinese platform.

So they're slowly but surely reducing those costs.

But the whole infrastructure and training and what happens to the cars in the evening, that kind of thing, and who charges them, all that, that's still a big investment, right?

They just raised, Waymo just raised $16 billion

right, to expand into 10 more cities, right?

And I've got bad news for everyone, like Ireland or Dublin or Limerick isn't going to be one of those, right?

For very obvious economic reasons, right?

You've got to get that payback and we're not that market, right?

But London is one, isn't it?

London is one and Tokyo is the other.

Now, the language is a little loose around how that's going to be rolled out, but those are marquee cities, right?

Like, they're the ones, if you're going to go, you know, and Milan will be next for the fashion, right?

It is and it isn't.

Something has happened in the meantime, right?

And it's the AI side of things, right?

An end-to-end AI that's being operated.

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