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

This is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And Alexa St. John, covering Tech and Suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Carl Yagnemma, CEO of Hyundai Aptus joint venture.

We'll be discussing a lot of the JV's new plans since it was just announced within the last few

months. We'll be talking about the hurdles and promise of level four self-driving

technology in robot taxis across the world.

Aptive has a fleet that is deployed in I think six different cities right now.

But first, Leslie and Alexa... I think six different cities right now.

But first, Leslie and Alexa, a busy week in the news.

We saw the Uber Grub Hub deal fall apart and with delivery being such a key topic right now

that was certainly notable what what were your thoughts on that?

What do I think about it? That's a good question Pete. I'm just thinking that maybe we're going to see a lot more consolidation in the industry even though this particular deal did not come to fruition. What, according to Reuters at least,

was there was some sort of trouble with potential regulatory issues.

As you know, Uber has Uber eats and if Uber eats and Grub Hop were to come together that

would have created quite a juggernaut in the food delivery business. This was a 6.5 billion

dollar all-stock bid for Grubhub and it ended up that

Uber lost out to a European company called just eat takeaway.com. So I would say stay tuned and see what's going to happen with companies like Uber

that need to reinvent themselves and reach out into other areas of business in

light of COVID-19 and there's been a whole lot of that

reinvention in terms of delivery hasn't there Pied I know you've followed that

a little bit?

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