Brett Adcock

It's the time it takes to...

Get the technology mature enough where they can run enough cities, enough places, and then it's the time it takes to get the install base of autonomous hardware and software in all these places.

That's going to take some time too.

We just can't snap our fingers.

We just don't have enough install base of autonomous vehicles in the world.

I think Tesla's got 10 million cars in the road, and maybe there's thousands or so of Waymos, but you have over a billion cars.

on the planet.

So you need to make a large fraction of that all autonomous.

So you're looking at like, this isn't going to happen in a year or two.

It's going to take some time.

When are we going to see your vehicles?

The aircraft?

We have them now.

We fly every week in California.

The challenging part with Archer is that we are governed by the federal airspace.

So to fly passengers and charge money, we have to have, like, basically a type certification from the FAA.

That process moves at the speed of, like, the post office.

And the FAA is not incentivized to put anything in the air unless they know for sure it's going to be really safe.

The safety standard for us that we want to certify to is 1 times 10 to the minus 9.

in terms of hours of reliability before a catastrophic event.