Dmitri Dolgov
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When can I buy a Waymo so that I don't need to wait for it when I want to go?
I can just like, when I'm ready, I can walk out the door and it's there.
Okay.
I'll add it to the list.
Just so you know, that waiting for the car, it should be nice just in the garage there and keep your stuff in there and everything.
It's not the first time you've heard that request.
So it seems to me operationally very intensive and very hard work.
Like a self-driving car is actually not self-driving.
It takes a village.
You have all of the human operator ready to step in.
And, you know, there was that thundering herd incident that you guys talked about in San Francisco that kind of highlighted that for people.
And then there's just like keeping the cars clean and, you know, keeping everything running in that regard.
And so can you describe just what the operational infrastructure that sits behind Waymo looks like?
One of the new Porsches, I think it is, has inductive charging, just like your iPhone, where you just drive over the charging mat.
I was amazed that that works at car scale, but presumably in the future they'll just be able to drive on the charging mat.
Or do you think just robotic plug-in will be easier?
We'll see.
How well behaved are the Waymo riding population in terms of not leaving a mess in the car and
It's a broken window thing where it's so clean to begin with.
I know, yeah.