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Hi everybody.

Hi everybody,

welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News. Hi, it's Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And it's Alexis St. John, covering check and suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Laura Major,

chief technology officer at Motional,

the Hyundai Active Aut driving joint venture.

We're going to talk to Laura about the busy couple months that Motional has had,

which included receiving a driverless permit for operations in Nevada, some news about near-term operations with

Via in the coming months ahead and the company's recently released voluntary safety self-assessment report.

Well, I'm really looking forward to that conversation, Pete. I know you guys really had

a great conversation with Laura. But first I wanted to ask you something. There's been a lot going on in the mobility world this week. Former President Trump, for example, issued a number of pardons on its last full day in office.

Now that includes a few people in the auto space such as car dealer Billy Walters.

For Monday's paper, you wrote about the partnering

of Anthony Leavendowski, the former Google AB engineer

who was convicted of stealing a trade secret from Waimo.

So can you tell us a little more about that?

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