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#138 CEO Motive, Shoaib Makani w/ Ilya Fushman: Powering the Physical Economy

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AI Dash Cams: The Future of Trucking

In 2017, we actually acquired an AI company essentially that they were building a consumer computer vision application and redirected them to build our first dash cam. Our camera tech is really exceptional. It reduces accidents by around 50%, which is financially incredibly consequential. This is like a $200 camera that reduces your accident rate by 50%. But like huge societal benefit. Road fatalities are actually increasing after 50 years of decline in the last three years they're up sequentially. And it is just very, very clear that if you can make that driver more alert and more aware of their own behaviors, you can actually prevent accidents and save lives. That's really one of our core missions now.

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