Ed Ludlow

I'm Ed Ludlow.

Now here's more of my conversation with Waymo co-CEO Takedra Maracana.

San Francisco, the Bay Area, is my home.

London's where I grew up.

And I was studying the map of the boroughs that you proposed to launch in.

And you correct me if my math is wrong, but just based on those boroughs, at launch, this seems to be the biggest citywide deployment from the start that you guys will have done.

Is that correct?

Right.

I asked because of those 20 cities to come, London is one.

Yes.

And London is now outside of the European Union, but it's, you know, it's kind of your Europe launch.

Yes.

What was that experience like within London's regulatory framework and the UK's regulatory framework?

Well, pricing, for one, like Londoners take the bus.

Yes.

Londoners take the tube.

Yes.

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?

Yes.

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