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Ed Ludlow

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Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

It breaks sharply.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

And at the point that the impact was made, it was a speed of single digits miles per hour, blue six.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

It had been traveling at 17.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

So in that instance, the the system worked, but a probe was opened.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

Just would you reflect on on that?

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

But also, you know, my my interpretation of what Waymo's.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

publicly stated about this is that you actually kind of welcome the opportunity to open up the system to the regulators.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

Let them look at it.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

Separately, safety investigators are looking at the issue of how the Waymo interacts with parked school buses.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

This seems to be sort of a separate technical challenge.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

What is that about?

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

Why is it that the Waymo system...

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

has to, or I guess struggles with, is the headline that came out, but with a parked vehicle of that size in a school zone, of course, where you also have mixed foot traffic of children in particular.

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

If we call that an edge case interaction with the school bus, that software fix that you talked about, is it a total fix?

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

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

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

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

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

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

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

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

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

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

Bloomberg Tech
Special Edition: Waymo co-CEO on the Road to 1 Million Robotaxi Rides a Week

Camera, vision, lidar, radar.