Travis Kalanick
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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So look, every bad thing that you see in transport, like systemically, anything in transport that you view as systemically bad,
was most likely pushed by the trial lawyers and the insurance companies.
Every single bad rule that's weird and dumb, the insurance companies and the trial lawyers were in the game, big time.
No, no, remember, insurance companies make margin on accidents.
If there's no accidents, there's no insurance company.
In a weird way, they love accidents.
As long as it's in their actuarial table, they're pumped.
What they don't like is accidents they didn't plan for.
But accidents that they plan for, big insurance companies.
Outcomes they love.
Like I remember we went to DC and the taxi system, the liability on a ride, if you took a taxi, it might still be this way to this day, was like $25,000 in a taxi.
But we went to, we being Uber at the time, went to DC and they pushed a one and a half million dollar policy per ride.
Okay.
So what does that mean?
That means, well, this, you know, accents are going to happen.
We're probably like Uber's probably safer, but it just, do you think the trial lawyers weren't pumped about that?
You think the insurance companies weren't also pumped about that?
They can go get up to them because by the way, the insurance company might be on the other side and they're like, Oh, there's a, there's a one half million dollar bank account here that I can get access to on a random accident.
Right.
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