Jaden Schaefer

She said, our core technology enables for the first time a single solution that can operate across multiple verticals at scale.

It's not about running two programs or maintaining two stacks.

This is really interesting because, I mean, technically a car is a car and driving is driving.

But if anyone has ever tried to drive a semi truck before, you know that, I mean, this is very different.

You have to get a different type of license.

These are massive vehicles.

The way that it backs up, the way that, you know, everything's happening on that truck is very different than a regular car.

So

You know, they're saying, look, a car is a car.

These are, you know, it's using the exact same system.

But we have seen other players like Waymo try to get into both just vehicles and freight and exit the freight because it was kind of maybe too risky or too hard or they felt like they could come to market with the cars sooner.

And maybe Waymo gets into it.

But usually when you see a company try something and exit out of it, it just feels like that's not the vertical they're going to go after.

So here it appears that this is something they're actually going to attack, which is going to be interesting.

This whole partnership is also bringing Yuritsu's career full circle, the CEO, because before founding Wabi, she was actually the chief scientist at Uber's autonomous vehicle division, Uber ATG, which Uber actually sold to Aurora Innovation in 2020.

And so she already works with Uber Freight.

And now this new agreement, I think, is going to really make that a lot deeper.

It's kind of interesting, right?

Like she was literally working in Uber, working on this.

Uber sells off this kind of autonomous vehicle division to another company.