Ed Ludlow

Yeah, thank you, Matt.

We're talking about the Zoox purpose-built robo-taxi.

No driver controls, no steering wheel, no pedals, inward-facing seats.

starting in Vegas this summer, Los Angeles next year.

And we're delighted to have Ubacio Darcos-Rosahi and Aisha Evans of Zoox with us.

And Aisha, I've been fortunate to spend a lot of time with you in the last year.

And you've always described Zoox as vertically integrated, control the stack, own the vehicle, own the app, own the service.

You're going with a partner.

What's changed?

The way to ride is interesting.

Uber is not a ride.

It is a platform, a marketplace for increasingly different kinds of rides.

What is it, Dara, that you think you can help Zoox do that I guess they wouldn't otherwise be able to do on their own?

Which you've experienced recently, right?

Absolutely.

This is small scale in the first instance, right?

Las Vegas, where you're already active, and then LA.

The mechanics of it are interesting, right?

Because as a rider, you are not guaranteed in the first instance that you can choose a Zoox.

It's algorithmic.