

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall
About this episode
From the show’s notesWaymo is working on self-driving taxis. Which is a huge deal. Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft have remade cities, allowed people to give up their cars, and generally connected the buttons you push on your phone to real things happening in the world more directly than almost any other app. Nilay Patel talked to Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, about expanding Waymo’s service to other cities, the hurdles in place, and how she thinks the company will make money over time. We also talked about the regulatory issues the industry faces as it tries to roll out self-driving more broadly, and whether things like Tesla’s “full self driving” are confusing the issue or helping it. This was a really fun conversation made even better because we recorded it live, on stage at Code Conference.
Links:
Meet the self-driving brains working with Tesla and Ford theverge.com/22627847/argo-ai-b…
Read the show’s notes in full
Ford CEO Jim Farley on building the electric F-150 -- and reinventing Ford
theverge.com/2021/5/20/22444294…
Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down, replaced by two co-CEOs theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364317/…
Riding in Waymo One, the Google spin-off’s first self-driving taxi service theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126103…
Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco theverge.com/2021/8/24/22639226…





