Waymo's Co-CEO on Its New Uber Partnership, Safety, and Driverless Trucking — With Tekedra Mawakana

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tekedra Mawakana is the Co-CEO at Waymo. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the company's new partnership with Uber, which is making Waymo's driverless cars available through its app. We also discuss the safety of driverless vehicles, food delivery, Waymo's place within Alphabet, when these cars will drive on icy roads, the potential for driverless trucking, and more. Tune in for a revealing conversion with one of self-driving's top leaders. -- You can subscribe to Big Technology Premium for 25% off at https://bit.ly/bigtechnology Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Waymo's co-CEO joins us to talk more about a new partnership that the company is making with Uber and plenty more right after this.
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0:48.6	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:55.6	Waymo Co. CEO, Takedra Mao Kana, is here with us.
0:58.3	We're going to talk about this new partnership the Google-owned Rite Autonomous Company is making
1:03.7	with the ride-hailing company, Uber, and plenty, plenty more.
1:06.6	We love to get into this stuff.
1:08.4	And I have so many questions to ask.
1:10.8	So it's great that you're here, Takedra.
1:12.6	Welcome to the show.
1:13.9	Thank you.
1:14.6	Thank you so much for having me, Alex.
1:16.4	Excited to be here.
1:17.6	Yes, great to have you.
1:18.6	Okay, let's get into the fact that autonomous driving, if you read the headlines,
1:23.0	is a real menace in society.
1:24.6	So here's one from October 3rd. The San Francisco Standard tweeted,
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