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Tekedra Mawakana

lines on the record: 69
first: 2023-06-08
most recent: 2023-06-08
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Why Jaguar? So back when we were looking for a partner, it was just a great, great power supply for our driver as well as fully electric, which is one of our commitments.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And so, and you can go to Tempe, Scottsdale. I mean, it's definitely the world's largest fully autonomous 24-7 public service. You know, it was fun during Super Bowl to see people fly in, jump in a car, head to all of the events, except, you know, into the congestion of the Super Bowl, which we steered clear of.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We definitely want to stay in a similar range, but we're offering a completely consistent experience. It's not like catch us, catch can. You don't have to worry about whether you're going to have conversations. It's safe. It's clean. It's consistent. And that's what we found. Phoenix was our first major market. We're actually 180 square miles there now, including the airport.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, our next step in the regulatory process is a CPUC hearing. So, hopefully, by the end of June, we'll have resolution on that.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of those people. But we've moved through that, thankfully. There's a little bit of a man versus machine thing that we find too in the early days, you know, car would pull up to a four-way intersection without anyone in it. And the human driver has no idea who got there first. The computer knows exactly who got there first. And they will always try to take it if they see there's not a driver.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think us as a company, we've certainly had to deal with vandalism and crime. But I mean, that's not something we hear from our writers. People just having a relationship with what they believe is sort of unmonitored asset that's driving down the street. And so whether they're throwing rocks or throwing bottles, you know, that happens. You're very diplomatic. They're just like fucking car. Right, right.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think they've been drop offs. You know, that was a challenge, especially if you put one of your kids in the car, you want to know exactly where they're going to be dropped off. You want to know exactly where they're going to be picked up. You know, even if they're 16, if they have, you know, epilepsy, you just want to know. And so that's one of the challenges that we remain really focused on from our project.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I think for people who are sort of excluded from the mobility and transit system today, like there's over seven million Americans who have no vision. You know, there's 500,000 children with cerebral palsy. Like there's all these folks who no matter what age, they're not going to be able to get a driver's license and drive. And what we've learned is people really value independence. And independence of being driven by Uber driver isn't that much different than being driven by mom or dad or a friend. And so we know that there's a real chance here and the independence people want and the access to mobility is what we're excited about”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. Right. So I think, yeah, debris flying across the street. A human driver says I can go straight through that the way Moe driver pauses. It could be that bag. It could be a ball. There could be a kid coming behind it. So there is a cautiousness around the way in which we think about safety. You know, these early days of these cars learning, people give us some grace. Over time, we need it to behave the same way everyone around it will behave. And that's the trajectory we've seen, you know, in the olden days people complained about our cars taking too long to cross large intersections. Right. Now sometimes people come out and they say, gosh, the driver's much more aggressive than it was before. It's just the process of learning.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's exactly right because it was a low speed car. And so for those very low speed cars, you don't need to have those controls.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The reason we have it is we are taking fully FMVS certified cars, right? Cars that are sold, and we're adding our technology to those cars. So then we can't remove those controls without some sort of regulatory approval. So we just keep all of the”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or be able to yell at someone. And it's just a little bit of like. Hey, we're gonna get you where you're going safely. We want to delight you.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think this is a little bit of like losing control, right? People get in the car and they want it to behave exactly like I behave or you behave or.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. But I think I do argue with Uber drivers and. What are you doing? Which way are you going? When we first show up in a city, like our announcement to go to LA, there were people there mapping the city. We build a three-dimensional map for the Waymo driver because the level of detail and high fidelity of those maps is like down to the millimeter next to the car because the car has to be able to see everything and understand the environment around it. So we can't use Google Maps or any other map for that.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's exactly right. So, routing is an area we got a lot of feedback in the early days. People saying, why did it go that way? Give me more insights. And over time, people said, you know what? It's safe. I get where I'm trying to go. So you don't care. I don't care.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talk about that. Why doesn't it do that? So sometimes our routing is different than how human drivers go. And we don't know if there's a road closure, if there was congestion that the car was trying to go around, if the side of the street we were going to get dropped off on. It knew the best way to get us there. So it wants us on the street.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then it didn't see the address explain what happened. So it did. It understood the address, but because it can really see almost three football fields, 360 degrees, it pulled over where it knew it had space. Right. So your particular street right in front of your house, there's all parking and then two driveways. Right, my driveway. I didn't pull over in front of either. It stopped at the last space available before your house. I see. So it sees that, but it didn't want to pull in my driveway. No. Because we could pick that address, but not be coming out of your house. Right. For example. Does that happen a lot? Just we'll pick the safest place for someone. It will. It'll pick, you know, pick up and drop offs. We sort of call them poodos. Yeah. Okay. It is one of the biggest. Yeah, pickups and drop-offs. It is one of the biggest sort of learning areas for an autonomous vehicle. I mean, think about a mall. Right. You say take me to the mall.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then my initials are on the top of the ride, so I can confirm that that's in fact my ride. What it is is on top of these cars for people who don't know there's these, I don't know what to call it. It's actually the Waymo driver, sort of how we talk about it since up there. It's one of the components. And in it is cameras, SIDRs, LIDAR, LIDAR, and everything else. And it spins around. Does it have to do that? It does. It does. It does. It's the same things. It's not just for fancy. Exactly. And around the outside of the car, too. Sure. But the ones that you know for Waymos, it sits on the top. It looks like it's going to take off a little helicopter. It sits on the top of a car.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tequedra, thanks for joining us today. So we just rode over to the studio in a way more autonomous taxi, Waymo 1. Let's explain how it works right now for people. So just like any app on your phone, I have the Waymo app. So I opened it and then I put your address in and I put request ride. And then a ride was sent to our destination.”
2023-06-08 · On with Kara Swisher · Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT