Dolgov: Consumer and community trust is the main bottleneck to scaling Waymo
Dmitri Dolgov · No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov · Oct 24, 2024 · at 31:54
Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, responds to Sarah Guo's question about what limits autonomous vehicle fleet expansion to a billion miles per week.
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“Primarily it's the latter. So we've always, you know, our playbook has been to you know, go about it responsibly and gradually and earn trust every step of the way and have this transparent dialogue. Again, this is a very new thing, new technology, new product, you know, very different from what people are used to. I think it has to be a visitor process. And again, you know, trust is the thing that's hard to, you know, earn, but very easy to lose. So that's the main thing, right?”
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