No one company has successfully demonstrated a mastery of all the dimensions of launching a viable robot taxi service anywhere except Waymo and Phoenix. And there the last frontier is the economics. We don't know if it's possible to operate one city profitably, but not another. So just, but it feels like it leaves us waiting for the technological miracle, which I think is what a lot of investors have wanted out of a BTAC for a long time.
With Alex and Kirsten sweating it out in Arizona (and Ed staying smugly cool in Oregon), a conversation about cars and air conditioning leads the gang across a wide range of mobility topics. From the upcoming AV showdown at California's CPUC and Tesla's Rangegate scandal to ChargePoint's decision to actually monitor EV chargers (imagine!), stay cool by staying on top of the hottest issues in mobility tech.