The CEO of Cruise comes on to talk about its rapidly expanding self-driving car efforts

and how quickly autonomous driving can take hold.

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I've been tooling around San Francisco and self-driving cars for the past couple weeks,

and I can't wait to talk to you about the experience and bringing on someone who can tell us

just how quickly this stuff is going to make its way into cities across the U.S. and the world.

We're joined today by Kyle Vote. He is the CEO of Cruz. Kyle, so great to meet you, so great

to have you here. Thanks for coming on the show.

Honored to be here. Thanks, Alex.

So let me just start by saying my observation after trying this stuff out is that it really

feels like we're at an inflection point with

self-driving. I was a tech reporter in San Francisco, 2015, 2016, when everyone said this stuff

is right around the corner, and it's just taken a little bit longer than expected. But it does

feel like this is a moment where this is starting to really take hold and go mainstream in a way

that I think is really underappreciated. I think you had a stat on LinkedIn that you're increasing

your eyes like 49% every month. So just tell me a little bit about whether I'm right about that

observation and if so, why? You are. I mean, you see it in all the announcements we put out and in the growing size of the

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