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

at the Automotive News. We continue the conversation about the self-driving truck market on this

week's episode. My guest is Raquel Erdison, CEO and co-founder of Wabi, a Canadian

startup that plans to deploy driverless trucks in Texas by the end of this year.

You know, we have really super ambitious milestones, you know, in the entire history of the

company, we have never missed one. Who can actually say that?

First though, we've got our weekly

look at headlines from around the mobility sphere. And for that, I'm joined by my colleague,

Molly Boygan. Molly, how are you today? Doing well, thanks, Pete. How are you? I'm doing good.

So I caught that you were in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. What were you covering?

Yes, I was down in the nation's capital. I was attending the 5GAA, 5G Automotive Association

symposium on V-2-X, which is Vehicle to Everything technology. And it was, first of all, just really interesting to be

down in D.C. I went to a Tate at one point during the day for a coffee. And everyone around me was

talking about all of the stuff that's been coming out of the Trump administration, including

tariffs. So he certainly talked of the town. And I learned a lot of the symposium as well.

Did you learn a lot in the coffee line?

I was certainly eavesdropping.

It's a reporter's duty.

So I, you know, maybe for a future story.

Excellent.

So on the 5GAA and V-2X topics, I'm curious, it sounds like there's some players in the industry

who are tired of waiting for the

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