Aurora

“I think that's probably high for 10 years from now, but it's gonna be tens of percent is my expectation in, in a decade.”

“Now, my expectation is that if you're driving a truck today and you would like to retire as a truck driver, you're going to be able to. The shortage is that dire and the opportunity to kind of grow the freight market is, is real. And so I expect that, again, y…”

“And so for us, we're focused initially on trucking. We see that as a gigantic, exciting market”

“So today we haul goods for a number of our partners. And so there's an Aurora tractor with a FedEx trailer or a Hirschback trailer or a Warner or Schneider trailer. And, you know, we do this with a person in the cab monitoring the driver, but we're being paid …”

“One of the core technologies we have at the company is we call it First Light, which is the special LiDAR technology. So LiDAR is using light like radar, and it allows us to see farther than other people can and see how fast things are moving instantly.”

“If you're driving a truck down the freeway at 65 miles an hour, you have to be looking out 404 hundred plus meters to see what's happening because there's so much momentum and inertia with that, that thing.”

“And so, yes, our expectation is by the end of next year, there will be no human. Yeah. And, you know, the way we're going to launch this is initially it'll be on one lane, Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houst…”

“The thing we can do best in world is build that driving capability, and there's companies out there that have been at it for a hundred years that build vehicles, and they've got a whole lot of battle scars learning how to do that well. Let's work with them rat…”