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Tekedra Mawakana

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
209 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

So first and foremost, this was a child and we are extremely happy that she walked away from this incident.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

As you said, because there's, you know, an investigation pending, we thought it was important to become a party to the investigation.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And so we're doing that.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And as we've already stated, you

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

16 miles per 17 miles per hour.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

We did detect her, you know, coming between from behind a tall SUV into the roadway.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

We hard braked and we made contact and at six miles an hour.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And we also determined in our human equivalent model that a human would not have been able to perform as our superhuman driver performed.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Right.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And so this is an example, we believe, of exactly why we do what we do.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

We want to make roads safer.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And we welcome the opportunity to cooperate with the NTSB in this investigation.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yeah, I think, you know, first and foremost, with safety being our priority, how we perform around school buses and children is a top priority for our company.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

You know, we've already addressed this situation with a software release, which is really important to us.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

But also we partnered with the Austin Independent School District.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

to look at data they have so we can make sure that we are learning from what they have.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

You know, their data obviously would be more based on human driven vehicles, but still having that opportunity to learn is really important to us.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

And then once again, we have agreed with the NTSB to be a party to this investigation because we think it's important for us to understand and for them to understand what we're seeing because we also have a lot of awareness around the school buses.

Bloomberg Talks
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana Talks Global Expansion

I don't think we can think of it as a single thing.