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And so we showed up, you know, we have a fleet operating partner and we were able to launch quite quickly after we first arrived.

I think in a lot of cities, especially cities that are meaningful from a transportation perspective, we're helping, we're working, engaging with policymakers.

You know, we have the burden to demonstrate our safety impact.

And so with 127 million miles and 90% fewer serious injury-causing crashes or worse, we have to educate them on that kind of impact.

82% fewer airbag deployments.

This isn't something that any fleet-based business has been able to come in and give policymakers data.

So assuming that we can do that and then grow trust,

And, you know, we do that by partnering with organizations in markets who have been trying to solve road safety issues.

They've been trying to expand mobility options for residents.

And so we partner with them.

And then obviously we work with law enforcement and first responders to train them on how our technology works.

Yeah, we think it's really important that there is a federal AV standard.

We've been advocating for sort of a safety case based approach because the technologies are different.

And we think that the burden should be on companies to demonstrate why you believe your technology is safe enough.

We also think there should be transparency requirements.

You know, people should have to demonstrate how many trips are you providing?

You know, I don't right now.

The balance isn't quite there.

I mean, some states require a lot of reporting.

Some don't require as much reporting.