The US Open, Robotaxis & pediatricians are piercing ears?!
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What is the full Robotaxi experience and how does it compare to Uber?
Am I gonna hate my hair?
Yes.
No.
I gotta say my hair.
Hold on, my hair. Am I gonna ate my hair?
I think you look phenomenal. My hair last episode was How did no one say anything?
So your hair always looks the same to me.
Couldn't believe it. How am I today?
Great.
Okay.
Okay, ready? Welcome back to another episode of Two Parents in a podcast. We took a robo taxi here.
How did returning home after the trip affect the family dynamics?
Yeah. It was awesome.
Did it have a back um Windshield.
No, it is literally two chairs.
It reminds me.
In in a gold the back windshield is like matted, like you can't see out of it. Yeah.
So it reminds me a lot of back to the future and like the branding of back to the future. And you know how it feels like so often brands today feel the same? Like remember we had that like clean millennial aesthetic callet that started like eight, ten years ago with Casper mattresses and outdoor voices and uh and that kind of like laundry list of direct to consumer brands.
Okay.
This just feels like it is the opposite end of the spectrum.
What made the JFK airport line so chaotic and how should line‑cutting be handled?
Like super aggressive graffiti style text, gold cars, um Yeah. It they are what they are doing from a branding perspective is is like nothing else that I'm seeing in in market at at um at scale.
And they have it so what what is so cool about it is
Yeah, I agree. Let's talk about the product, not the brand.
Yeah.
Okay.
Why do the hosts consider the US Open the best sporting event for casual fans?
Okay.
Give us the rundown, please.
So you call it on the on the Robotaxi app.
Yes, which is just skyrocketed towards the top of the app store.
Is the $100 chicken nugget box worth the price and how did it taste?
Let's discuss the d the um Decision they did to put the word taxi in there. I love it. Cause it's telling you it's a robot and it's a taxi combined.
Yes. Great great verbiage, but do we want to talk about the experience?
How did the dads perform in HYROX and why is it a better fit than a marathon?
First.
Yes.
What are the key differences between spectating HYROX and a marathon?
So you you do the so you get on the Robo Taxi app, which how's the app? User friendly?
Should kids get their ears pierced at a pediatrician’s office or a mall kiosk?
Yep. Very, very, very clean, simple user interface.
And it boom, it shows up. And the best part, I think the most exciting part, butterfly doors. Oh. Butterfly doors. I don't know how they decided on that. Where how they landed on that. Genius.
Yeah.
So then you get in, it's very clean. It's just two seats.
Yeah.
That's it.
So only a front seat, no back seat.
Oh.
Yes. Seats very wide. Very comfortable.
Very comfortable. A lot of leg room.
Yep.
That was a standout. I sent that feedback to to um Tesla that asked if I wanted to. No
steering wheel as well. Very important. Just two seats.
And are these everywhere or where are these?
So here's the thing. They launched in la they launched in Austin last week. And Now the whole big kind of thing that we're seeing online is like the robo taxi takeover. And so uh I don't think they're in any uh any other markets yet. I think Austin was market one, but like on the way here, we took nine, it's like call it nine to twelve blocks to get here. We saw three robo taxis. So like they are everywhere in Austin.
So hold on, do these jump a Waymo? Like is Waymo just like out of business now?
No, so there's a lot of different debates going on. Um, Waymo is uh they were obviously first to market at scale. And I think that that the feedback on the service, obviously people get mad at Waymo's, but I think largely um it's been a really good user experience. But the core difference between Waymo and Tesla is Waymo is technology integrated into someone else's vehicle. Jaguar?
Mm-hmm.
Tesla's their own technology integrated into their own car. So Tesla's vertically integrated. And Waymo. Taps into Um Taps into the automakers. Does that make sense?
Yep, it does. So I it'll be interesting to see how this affects
Waymo.
Well 'cause
I was just gonna say, aren't they running kind of like the early Uber playbook of like they're cheap.
So that is one of the myths I wanted to spell. Oh. Okay. Because I saw something online and it showed like a thirty dollar Uber trip at a four dollar robo taxi trip. Today, our trip here was um it was more expensive on Robotaxi. I took screenshots to share. So what I did is I took it from uh like to I just took I took it from our house to studio three and Robotaxi was around twelve bucks. And uh I looked at Uber and Lyft and uh Uber X was like six bucks.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the full Robotaxi experience and how does it compare to Uber?
0:00–0:33
2
How did returning home after the trip affect the family dynamics?
0:33–1:20
3
What made the JFK airport line so chaotic and how should line‑cutting be handled?
1:20–1:48
4
Why do the hosts consider the US Open the best sporting event for casual fans?
1:48–1:57
5
Is the $100 chicken nugget box worth the price and how did it taste?
1:57–2:14
6
How did the dads perform in HYROX and why is it a better fit than a marathon?
2:14–2:15
7
What are the key differences between spectating HYROX and a marathon?
2:15–2:20
8
Should kids get their ears pierced at a pediatrician’s office or a mall kiosk?
2:20–1:06:11
Speakers
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