Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough and it's a big one everyone.

The founder and CEO of a company that we talk about all the time, Brian

Silesky of Argo AI joins us today. Brian tells us more about the unique Silicon

Valley slash Detroit Hybrid that Argo represents.

We discuss the unique business model and strategy that Argo is exploring and we find

out where the self-driving space is now that COVID-19 has

basically put everything on pause. I really need to start with the most

pressing question at this moment in time because the in

terms of what I've covered on this podcast recently in this space has been you know

basically everything I've heard is that in terms of the actual research and, you know, on the road testing and things like that,

everybody in the industry has had to put that on pause.

So I'm just, if I could get a sense of for you all,

if that's true, is everything on pause?

Like what is the state of your work at the moment?

Yeah, it's a good question.

We've been off the road since around middle of March

when it became clear that, you know, the right thing to do is to go ahead and

quarantine and, you know, we were, we were very proactive as a company to we want we always want to prioritize

the health and safety of our people and and uh it was clear that this was you

know the world was gonna was gonna change from that point forward.

We didn't know how long and but it was going to change.

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