John Collison

What's that saying?

The Navy SEALs?

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

That's what, like, traffic jams are.

Like, you accelerate abruptly, then you come to a stop, and sometimes you have a traffic jam.

Like, what happened?

Well, like,

you know, an old lady crossed the road three hours ago, and we still have the standing wave there, right?

So if everybody, you know, was kind of a smooth, predictable driver and a consistent driver, and you still have those traffic jams at the time of, but then the time constant to clean it out, I think would be very different.

But longer term, things like parking lots.

Right now, if you look at what is our most interesting pieces of land allocated to, it's parking lots, it's garages.

And why is that?

Well, because again, your car is just sitting there 90% of the time, right?

If more cars become fully autonomous, then there's no need of that, right?

Like, Ben, imagine, just imagine what you can do with, you know, your favorite city in the world if you don't have to spend that money, that huge fraction of it on, you know, just keeping these chunks of metal sitting around.

Yeah, no, on the latter part, I just have to give credit and huge kudos and gratitude to, you know, Larry and Sergey and, you know, Alphabet leadership center company.

It is part of the...

culture and the DNA of the company is to have that vision and have the stamina and conviction to go the distance.

So

To the other part of the question, you know, was it too early?