Tekedra Mawakana
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I mean, that's the way laws, whether it's 50 years ago or 100 years ago, I mean, they were sort of written to regulate automobiles and automobiles were presumed to be driven by people.
And so most places we have to think through what needs to change in the laws.
And then if people are willing to work with us on that,
then we work with them to change it.
And so in Japan, we have a path forward.
Yes.
In general, if there are other companies focused on autonomous driving to make roads safer, we think that's positive.
That is a positive thing.
We should have competition around saving lives.
And so that's a good thing.
I think what we don't spend a lot of time thinking about is how everyone is thinking about how to pursue partnerships right now.
We're just laser focused on our strategy.
We're the only company that is offering a 24 by 7 service across six markets in the U.S.
with ambitions to be in many more this year and launch internationally.
And, you know, we've driven over 200, almost 200 million fully autonomous miles and we're driving over 4 million miles per week.
And so that's, if you think about it, that's over six human lifetimes every seven days.
And so our driver is learning at a rapid pace.
And so we don't think there's anyone who's doing anything close to what we're doing.
And so for us, it's just staying focused on our own ambitions.
Yes.