Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the automotive news.

My guest on the podcast this week is John Absmeyer, chief technology officer and director of woven by Toyota.

John is going to catch us up on what

woven has been up to, which is a whole lot. Short version, there's tangible updates to what

they're doing at Woven City in Japan, they're pioneering Toyota's software-defined vehicle

future, and forging ahead on automated and autonomous driving developments.

We're at this convergence point where, you know, we're seeing everything that we've been working on for the last few decades in the industry actually ready to go.

And how do you make them all work together?

More on that in just a minute.

First, we have a look at this week's headlines from around the mobility sphere.

And my colleague Molly Boygan joins me for that.

Molly, how are you today? I'm doing well, thanks, Pete. How are you? I'm great. I have to tell you

that it's been a while since you've done headlines with me. I've gotten texts. I've gotten

emails. The listeners want to know where have you been.

Really? Yes.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

I'm flattered by that.

I'm happy to be here.

I think the answer to, to answer my own question there, where have you been?

I think covering tariffs and first and foremost on the list like everybody else around here.

Obviously, this is changing day to day, but I love a story that you have ready to post on Monday the 14th that kind of outlined some of the clear winners.

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