Travis Kalanick

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TBPN · Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Okay.

You have to install it.

Yeah.

Um, you have to like bring it up and make sure, okay, this is a new place.

How does it, does this machine work properly in this new place and calibrate and make sure it's safe and all of this.

So there's like a process of getting up.

Then there's change management because that, that site's going from.

There are people that show up in the morning.

There's all this very regimented process to make sure everything is going exactly as planned and people are exactly where they're supposed to be because otherwise weird things happen on a mining site.

So you have to go from that to, okay, we're now running an autonomous mining operation.

It's just a very different thing.

So the installation and the bring up and what we call commissioning are sort of like the things you have to do.

And, you know, like why does it take a long time to install?

Because that machine may not even be drive by wire.

So you have a mechanical system.

Like if you turn the steering wheel, like it's, you know what I mean?

It's a mechanical system, a hydraulic system.

So you're bringing effectively an actuator that might push a physical button.

Yeah, you're trying to make electricity then do a physical thing, so then you need physical actuation to do the things because it's not, these machines are not natively drive-by-wire.

I mean, look, we ultimately – I mean, if you go in the mining industry, there's like this term.

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