Ed Ludlow

In other words, does Waymo believe it's now solved that technical challenge?

there was a big sort of technological development, which was with Genie 3, you know, the use of simulation.

How much has that kind of accelerated the technology development side of what Waymo's doing of late?

Waymo has always talked about safety in the context of redundancy, right?

It's a multi-sensor suite around the vehicle.

Camera, vision, lidar, radar.

Tesla's approach, and they are at much smaller scale, especially in the vehicles that no longer have a safety supervisor, is a vision-only approach.

When you are trying to scale in all of these cities, are the different technology approaches something that worry you based on your belief of the kind of redundancy that's required?

Especially when you think about the economics at scale.

So let's end by me asking you this in case I don't speak to you for another year.

In a year's time, what are the metrics by which you as a leader in this company will judge success?

You know, you plan to launch in 20 cities, but you often point to different safety metrics and the miles driven internally.

What are you going to be holding the teams to account on?

And that's the measurement of success in the near term.

That's Waymo co-CEO Takedra Malkana.

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