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Hello everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter of the Automotive News. Hi is Leslie Allen. I am the editor of Shift magazine.

Thanks for listening. And Alexis St. John, covering tech and suppliers.

Joining us on today's episode is Brian Johnson,

city manager of Peachtree Corners, Georgia,

and the Director of Curiosity Lab,

which is a publicly funded lab designed

to provide a real world test environment

for next generation technologies be they 5G autonomous

vehicles etc they're one of these smaller smart smart cities out there unquote, smart cities out there.

Brian's going to tell us about everything going on in the suburbs of Atlanta.

But first, some news in the mobility front this week, we saw Uber report its earnings,

losing almost $3 billion in the quarter, and joining forces with Lyme on the scooter front.

Leslie and Alexa, what do you make of all the Uber news

in the mobility world this week?

Well, I think it's a little bit odd.

I mean, this Uber is sort of running hot and cold here.

It's also cutting 3,700 jobs. So we're really wondering how all of this is going to settle once all of this is done.

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