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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

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.

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

Is that correct?

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

Right.

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

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

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

Yes.

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

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

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

Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

Yes.

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

Londoners take the tube.

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

Yes.

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

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

Yes.

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

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

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

You are looking very closely at Japan.

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

Yes.

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

What do you see in the Japanese market?

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

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

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

But does your hope of launching there go beyond Toyota?