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Ed Ludlow

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Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Londoners take the tube.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Are Londoners prepared to sort of pay for a robo-taxi service that's equivalent to a human-driven cab, black cab in London or Uber and Lyft?

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Asia Pacific is also somewhere that is, it varies by country, but robotaxis are embraced.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

You are looking very closely at Japan.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

What do you see in the Japanese market?

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Of course, you're very closely aligned with Toyota as a partner, almost a national champion for them in the automotive space.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

But does your hope of launching there go beyond Toyota?

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Is it enabled by Toyota?

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And again, we have a lot of viewers in that country who just want to know when

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Culturally as well.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

But that is a market where the rules exist for you to, through partners or otherwise, but to charge a fare and have a real business, even if modest at first.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Right.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Around the world, the sort of robotaxi race is framed in U.S.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

companies against Chinese technology companies, right?

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

I think this is something that Waymo and some of Waymo's executives have been kind of candid about this past week in testimony.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

How do you see that playing out?