Takedra Mawakana

They've been extremely forward leaning and interested in seeing how this technology could actually improve safety on their roadways.

And that's where I think, you know, we find a sweet spot when people are less sort of complacent about the status quo.

And I think there's a lot of complacency about road deaths, 40,000 or 1.2 million globally.

And when there isn't, I think people are actively interested in solutions.

And then they want to figure out, of course, what are the things they need to think through and learn from.

Yes, I, yes, people are, there's, you know, obviously before we go in, we do a lot of polling.

We meet with a lot of residents as well as advocates and people are, people want safe, private spaces.

It adds to their day versus becoming time that they lose in the day.

And so it's a, you know, the thing that's been most exciting is once we introduce the Waymo service into a cityscape,

People discover things they didn't think they could have like that hour a day in the morning and that by yourself to get something done.

People have just sacrificed it.

And whether that's on transit or whether that's it doesn't matter.

And we're not you know, people want to take transit.

That's great because you can also sit there.

Just can't sit there maybe until you're calm, quiet.

And so this is something that we're hearing from riders all the time.

I didn't know that I needed this the way that I needed it.

Yes.

Yes.

When we first thought about Tokyo, Japan, we thought about Tokyo.