Ed Ludlow

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

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

Let them look at it.

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

This seems to be sort of a separate technical challenge.

What is that about?

Why is it that the Waymo system...

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.

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

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?