Stephanie Flanders

People on the Tesla side of the camp say this is a notable moment because it's a first for a vision only based platform to be on public roads, not just with no one in the driver's seat, but no supervising attendant in the passenger seat either.

People would also note that there were other restrictions on social media.

For example, there were support vehicles from Tesla, it is alleged and claimed.

That said, the vision only part, the distinction that Tesla's system relies only on cameras, whereas Waymo has a multi-sensor suite, your interpretation of why that's significant?

Regulatory landscape has not held back other competitors to this point.

And when you think about a few, a handful of Teslas on the road and you compare that to a million rides that we're all having per month already using Waymo and they're aiming it for a million per week, how much are we able to really say that Tesla's winning here or not?

Yeah, in simple terms, people define Waymo being ahead by the number of cities it's deployed in without any human supervision in the car and charging a fare to passengers.

I'd love to talk about the human side of this, though, right?

In your research at a number of academic institutions over the years, do we have the evidence yet that the general population feels ready to jump in a robo taxi as their sort of chosen method of transport?

Regina, what's interesting is the global context because we saw actually shares of Uber and Lyft get hit by this announcement of Elon Musk.

And in many ways, they're already out there not only partnering in Austin with Waymo like Uber, but they're also in China.

And we're seeing Beijing people hopping in those cars pretty actively.

We're also seeing it in the Middle East as well with WeRide and Uber out there trying things.

How are you seeing globally the readiness of the consumer?

Regina Clulo of Populous, great to have you on the show.

Thank you very much.

Okay, so Apple's basically flat in the session, but actually it had a pretty rough start to the week.

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