Julia Mejia

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Freakonomics Radio · In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins? · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

And I'm just curious, can you talk to us a little bit about the number of conversations that you've had with Waymo?

How many times did you meet with them?

Zero.

So this is why I asked the question, because oftentimes things are being done to us without us, right?

Chapter three.

If we're competing with machines, it will ultimately have an impact on our drivers.

What we are doing is creating an opportunity for people to choose to not support humans and the workforce.

That is the choice that we're giving people.

And so are we saying that our Uber and Lyft drivers and our app drivers are not safe drivers?

But Waymo is not a driver.

Waymo is a robot.

So let's... Without a doubt, you're totally correct.

Let's be really clear about what it is.

It's an apparatus.

And heard loud and clear.

I just want to make sure that we're not driving there.

That's not happening.

So right now, in supermarkets, they do these self-checkouts.

you know, CEOs versus bees, Boston would just be like, we're on the bee side.

We are just not the type of city that just goes along to get along with certain things that we feel, especially like Boston is a union town.

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