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

Joining me on today's podcast, I'm pleased to welcome Katie Fisher, Vice President of Commercial and Operations at British Automated Driving Startup Wave.

Wave has its first public automotive partnership this week announced with Nissan.

We're thrilled to be able to share that Nissan will be the first to target deployment of our technology onto their vehicles starting in model year 27, which will be here before we know it.

We're going to dive into that and more in just a minute.

But first, we have a look at other headlines in the mobility sphere this week.

And for that, I am joined by my colleague Molly Boygan.

Molly, how are you today?

I'm doing well, thanks, Pete. How are you?

I'm doing good.

This is the week that the auto industry came to you.

You're New York based and you're at the New York Auto Show. Tell us what was up at the auto show this week, if anything.

Yes, I was covering the auto forum on Tuesday and it was really an interesting day.

I mean, first of all, I have to say the Javitt Center is so cold.

That was one thing, one complaint I have, but it was, it was, you know, a lot of tariff talk.

I mean, it was the most striking parts for me were the back-to-back global economic outlook and auto industry economic outlook and just the very broad and deep impacts that these economists are projecting the tariffs will have on the industry. Obviously,

we are covering that day and in, day out, but just to kind of zoom out and say, okay, this is how it's going

to affect disposable income by household. This is the overall projected sales pace decline

for the industry, which I think was 8%. It was just, yeah, it was really interesting to see how

just all encompassing the tariffs conversation was. Also,

you know, it's funny, the California waiver conversation, as we actually talked about on the last

shift headlines, is still really important news, but it felt it almost got short-trift at

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