Tom Merritt

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2,109 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The FrogPants Studios Ultra Feed! · TMS 3023: Mo Nopoly, Mo Problems · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

Usually what I see is people just like you and me reacting like, Oh crap, we need to secure the sidewalk robots and then they do a bunch of work and then it turns out that that was not n maybe n entirely necessary. matched

In fact, I remember not wanting to take my iPhone out on the BART in San Francisco because I didn't want to call attention to myself and have somebody try to take it. matched

Well, and that that's another reason that you got slower going as you're testing these things to find out those edge cases where you know, why did it think that it was closer to the ground than it was? matched

Like, well, you know, let's fix that, let's uh update the software and you wanna get that to where that is a very small edge case that rarely happens. matched

Yeah, you're never gonna eliminate those things entirely, but uh, you know, you do wanna test that before you roll it out to wider areas and you know it matched

uh there are areas that are gonna be more difficult than others to serve. matched

Uh you know, uh certainly Rwanda is not a forgiving environment 'cause you have to fly it over mountains and stuff. matched

So a lot of good work is being done on on navigating uh unusual terrain and that's been going on for twenty years, the medical delivery uh there. matched

Medical delivery. matched

Uh but but yeah, you know, there's there's different situations in New York City than there is in Atlanta, than there is in San Antonio. matched

Than there is in Salt Lake, right? matched

Right. matched

And different neighborhoods in Salt Lake are gonna be different. matched

So there's gonna be, I think what will happen is once part 108 makes it easier, you're gonna see like an expansion of these to more areas a little faster. matched

And then they're gonna hit the edge cases where like, oh, okay, but now we got to figure out how to do Porter Ranch and now we gotta figure out how to do this and that, and that'll slow it down a little bit. matched

Uh same thing happened with the sidewalk delivery robots. matched

They're all over central Los Angeles. matched

But they haven't come to my neighborhood yes yet because they have to figure out how to do that, how to manage that the economics of it. matched

How to manage that the economics of it. matched

That is not sh uncommon. matched

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