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Tell us about the first time you rode in a robot car. I'm just curious what your experience was like.

I thought that it would be a little bit scary. I was just looking around, the steering view was moving,

people were staring at the car as well as at me.

But I'll be honest, after five minutes, it was kind of boring.

And it was very clear to me that, look,

this is going to be a very important part of the future of transportation.

This week, on bold names, such in console, he's the chief product officer at Uber, where he thinks about a lot of things, but especially these days, self-driving cars.

Uber's getting into the robot taxi business again, this time with a new strategy.

It's partnering with the likes of Alphabet's Waymo and other autonomous car vehicle companies.

It's getting those robot cars in its app, that ever-expanding Uber app that wants to do everything in your life.

So we talk about the future of transportation and what this could mean even for the future of car ownership itself.

From the Wall Street Journal, I'm Tim Higgins.

And I'm Christopher Mims.

This is Bold Names, where you'll hear from the leaders of the bold name companies featured in the Wall Street Journal.

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