Tekedra Mawakana

And as so many of the bystanders said after observing it, the child would not have survived, is what we were told.

We weren't obviously there.

those moments actually cause entire communities to think differently about this technology.

And so that's a, you know, to your point, it's click-baity, and on the other hand, it actually demonstrates what superhuman performance is.

Yeah, I think right now, for us, we're the only company operating at this scale.

We think it's really important to just kind of stay laser-focused on that.

You know, the way to think about it, because everyone's calling everything either autonomous or robo-taxi, and so the way we think about it is if you do not need a driver's license,

to be in the car by yourself, which is, for many, many people who do not have a driver's license, it's their first time ever in life.

And so those are very special moments.

But if you do not need a driver's license to be in a Waymo to get from point A to point B, that is fully autonomous, what is referred to in the geeky sense, level four and level five.

If it is anything less than that, if you have to be behind the wheel, if you have to take over when there's a beep, when there's anything, that's level three or level two or level one.

And it's really important for people to internalize this distinction, because what we found back in 2012, when we had sort of a

supercruise capability.

The Waymo driver was at that ability.

We could go from ramp to ramp, no problem, but when we got to surface streets, you needed to pay attention.

And we told employees, this is early days.

When we go from ramp to ramp, we have a camera in the car, this was just for employees.

We need you to pay attention.

And people immediately unplugged from the driving task, and they started shaving and curling their eyelashes, and they were, like, picking up things from the back seat and plugging things in.

And so that's when we decided, you know, cars have gotten safer over the years, right?