Tekedra Mawakana

I think the United States has an opportunity with this technology to lead globally.

And I don't think you can lead globally if it's a framework that's governed by multiple jurisdictions across the states.

And it's a way to slow down the adoption of this technology, not only in the U.S., but in other markets.

Yeah, that's a market where, you know, we're just going to have to do the work and demonstrate our safety outcomes and earn the trust and chisel away at it over time.

They do not have rules that allow the human operator to be removed from the vehicle entirely.

And until that changes.

But, you know, there is an interest in doing this in the state, even outside of the city.

And that gives us an opportunity to grow more fans and fans actually are calling for this in cities where our technology can't be deployed.

We are seeing organic campaigns spring up saying, I want Waymo in my town, you know, and sometimes it's, you know.

parents of children who will never have driver's license saying like, OK, this is a safer alternative.

Right.

Let's bring it in and let's give these children independence.

And so it's been really exciting for us to see people demanding it.

And over time, that's going to grow.

No, that's right.

It possibly it's correct.

I mean, we're in the phases of figuring out the specifics around the launch and figuring out the actual framework around the launch.

And so I don't want to speak too definitively about what we're going to do.

But what you're speaking to is we're not gated by the technology.

And we have the appetite to scale and we want to partner and do so safely and we want to earn trust.