Hi everybody welcome to shift a podcast about mobility I'm Pete Bigel, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi there, it's Alexa St. John, covering tech and suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Jennifer Heroon. She's a chief operating officer at Nautau, a Silicon Valley startup that is making

AI-powered fleet management software that anticipates driver behavior and is helping to reduce collisions on the road.

But before we get to Jennifer, first Alexa, obviously a ton of news this week in the mobility realm,

starting with Weymmo releasing its safety report, Waymo partnering with Daimler

trucks and Daimler working on a new deal with Luminar, LIDAR.

Where should we even start with all that?

Lots to unpack here for sure from the last week.

But starting with Daimler trucks,

they have embarked on a new partnership with Weymo,

which of course we know is the self-driving tech

company spun off from Google.

And the two companies are planning to jointly develop and

deploy autonomous Big Ricks. They announced this tie up last Tuesday morning and

really it connects one of the world's largest trucking companies with a

front runner in the self-driving realm. This deal didn't involve a Daimler

investment into Waimo and you know of course we know this isn't Daimler's into Weymo. And, you know, of course, we know this isn't Daimler's first

foray into self-driving truck technology.

They also have some work ongoing with Torque robotics,

Virginia-based AV company. But at least for the time being,

Daimler's work with Waimo will largely focus more on chassis development and

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