Ed Ludlow

You are looking very closely at Japan.

Yes.

What do you see in the Japanese market?

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

But does your hope of launching there go beyond Toyota?

Is it enabled by Toyota?

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

Culturally as well.

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.

Right.

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

companies against Chinese technology companies, right?

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

How do you see that playing out?

For example, with Toyota, you have a partner who also in common work with Pony AI as an example.

It's something you must be conscious of.

In markets where you want to expand outside of America in particular.

safety, there are still concerns.

And in January in particular, there's two kind of, again, case studies of regulatory scrutiny, right, of two specific incidences.

I think it's important, like, for both of them, I take time in putting it to you and explain it to you, but in the case of the Santa Monica incident, for example, a Waymo vehicle struck or collided with a child, but the system detected the child