Dmitri Dolgov

be able to get Waymo at any address that has USPS service in the US?

Or will there be some head-tail dynamic where Ketchikan, Alaska is just never worth it?

Relatedly, what will the second order effects of, say, majority autonomous traffic be?

Like, it feels like a lot of things will work better where, as you say, you know, when someone merges into a lane very poorly and everyone all the way back has to, you know, slam on the brakes, that's kind of anti-social behavior.

And so it feels like higher quality and more pro-social driving will just, I mean, basically reduce traffic a little bit, even for the same number of cars on the road.

But presumably there'll be other second order effects, like we'll want higher throughput traffic lights and,

Yeah, how else will things change?

Yeah, I don't think people often realize how big a deal parking minimums are for the layout of the urban landscape.

The coffee shop here where I am would like to have outdoor seating but can't because it would reclaim parking spots.

Yeah, wouldn't it be wonderful?

Yeah.

I have a few more questions, but I'm curious to talk about Google's relationship with self-driving where, again, it feels like right now Waymo is, aside from everything else AI related, kind of the most exciting thing happening at Google.

But it was a very long journey to get here.

I mean, I feel like you could say that Google almost started working on it too early because you were saying there's been a bunch of recent enabling technologies.

And so did it require Google starting when it did so early?

Or could one have spun off this project in 2015, 2020?

And then how did Google keep the faith?

when it always felt like it was perennially two years away.

Yeah, yeah.

Last question I have, you've been promoted a lot at Google.