Tekedra Mawakana
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And there are many, many things to be learned as we go.
Right.
Like some markets are still not open and they're really important transportation hubs around the world like New York City.
You know, and so we were the first company to receive a testing permit where we had driver supervision of fully autonomous testing in the city.
And we believe now with Governor Hochul that we will be able to be the first company to launch in New York City or New York State.
But, you know, this is going to be a path to actually figuring out the regulatory landscape.
Yeah, so first and foremost, when we think about 2026, just the year ahead of us, execution, execution, execution.
So scaling across these 20 cities that we're laying the groundwork for, continuing to grow our world-class team is obviously super important to us.
making sure that we are continuing to cost down our hardware stack and prove out our unit economics while scaling our fleet.
And so we have our fully electric I-PACE fleet.
We are starting to introduce the OHI vehicles.
And then you will see the IONIQ 5s come online.
And so making sure that we are investing for the long term for a sustainable business is what we're really focusing on.
You will this year be able to.
Right now, we've only throughout 2025, in the beginning of this year, had employees in three cities.
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Yes.
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Super Bowl is a reminder for us that Waymo is part of the fabric of the Bay Area.
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