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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: We have the Lyft CEO, David Risher, standing by with

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Technologies Ed Ludlow out in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: It was kind of astonishing, right is The stock as

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Speaker 3: of yesterday's close was down four percent year to day

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Speaker 3: and now we're up thirty percent in the session.

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Speaker 1: How things change? David Richard, good morning, Good morning. Let's see.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm like. I don't want to get

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Speaker 3: into numbers that have already been discussed on the call.

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Speaker 3: You know, great outlook for the quarter, the full year,

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Speaker 3: the future. What is different about Lyft now?

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Speaker 4: Well, so I've been in the job about eighteen months

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Speaker 4: and I've been I think, laser focused since day one.

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Speaker 1: Customer obsession, customer obsession every time I come up, I mean, David,

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Speaker 1: come on, yeah, so fair.

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Speaker 4: It means we want to provide a level of service

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Speaker 4: that is above and beyond anything you have any reason

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Speaker 4: to expect. And right now we're picking riders up faster

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Speaker 4: than we've ever before. We have more drivers on the

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Speaker 4: platform we've ever had before. Drivers prefer us twelve points

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Speaker 4: over the other guy, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the guy's name come, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Not going to talk about those guys. I don't even

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Speaker 4: know who you're talking about. Really, I got a little

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Speaker 4: confused there. But anyway, the point being that the better

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Speaker 4: you do for your riders, the better you for your drivers,

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Speaker 4: the more people respond. And that's where we've got all

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Speaker 4: the records that you're seeing.

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Speaker 1: Just very quick.

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Speaker 3: Detail matters when it comes to consumer behaviors psychology. My

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Speaker 3: research and understanding is that LIFT is very much the

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Speaker 3: commuter space right now. Urban area San Francisco is one

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Speaker 3: example where we are. Tell me more about that.

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Speaker 4: Sure, so about you're right Monday to Friday, about half

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Speaker 4: our rides.

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Speaker 1: Or commute rides, which is enormous.

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Speaker 4: Just think of the time people are saving not having

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Speaker 4: to drive themselves and so forth. We introduce something called

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Speaker 4: price lock a while back, which allows people to lock

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Speaker 4: in a price get rid of surge pricing, which you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm no fan of, neither is anybody else.

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Speaker 1: And that's had a.

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Speaker 4: Great effect on commute because commute people take the same

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Speaker 4: ride every day, but they don't like to see the

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Speaker 4: price bounce around.

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Speaker 1: So it's been a huge success.

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Speaker 4: We've got about two hundred thousan people who've got a

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Speaker 4: price lock pass right now keeps.

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Speaker 1: Growing autonomous vehicles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I want to have a really honest conversation

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Speaker 3: about this. As you know, it's something that I work

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Speaker 3: on every single day. Our colleagues at Bloomberg Intelligence, our

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Speaker 3: research arms say that you face disintermediation risk because you're small.

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Speaker 3: You announce the partnership with Mobili, which is a maker

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Speaker 3: of sensors and system under chap. Don't see it. I

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Speaker 3: don't understand how that gets you to market with offering

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Speaker 3: autonomous rides on your platform.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, love the question.

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Speaker 4: So first, I think avis are going to be a

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Speaker 4: huge accelerant. Actually say a tam expander address them or

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Speaker 4: an expander for a lift, because I think.

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Speaker 1: What it's going to do is it's going.

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Speaker 4: To bring new product onto the platform. If people are

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Speaker 4: going to like some people are going to like being

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Speaker 4: driven by human, some people are going to think being

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Speaker 1: Robot is pretty cool. Some use cases favor one or

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Speaker 1: the other.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, I think the hybrid future is what we're

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Speaker 4: looking at over time. Now, Mobili, they make the sensors,

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Speaker 4: they made the tech. You probably have them in your.

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Speaker 1: Car right now.

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Speaker 4: Laying assist smart cruise control, all that stuff that's level two.

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Speaker 4: Level four is full self driving. So imagine a world

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Speaker 4: where mobile ie tech, which might drow up in a

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Speaker 1: Imagine that you could push a button saying, you.

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Speaker 4: Know what, push this button, and your car is now

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Speaker 4: available on the lift platform to pick people up and

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Speaker 1: Wherever they are whatever.

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Speaker 4: So it's a way to sort of, you know, today,

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Speaker 4: if you want to drive for a lift, that means

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Speaker 4: you're using your time and your car.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, maybe you just use your car. You're getting somewhere now.

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Speaker 3: Because what you're describing is very similar to Elon Musk's

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Speaker 3: vision for the.

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Speaker 1: Tesla Proprietary Act.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Tesla owner, you can submit your vehicle

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Speaker 3: to the fleet and when you're not using it works

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Speaker 3: more like Airbnb, that's right, than any other platform. But

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Speaker 3: again it's very hard for people to see the jump there.

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Speaker 3: I'll let you answer, But you know Uber and Weimo

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Speaker 3: for example, it's very tangible. You can summon a waim

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Speaker 3: in those future markets next year Austin in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, where are we right?

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Speaker 4: I gottah well, so look, so we're doing both, right,

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Speaker 4: So we just signed an agreement with me Mobility, which

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Speaker 4: is also does full self driving in it Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: So that's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: So that means if you want to have that EXPERI

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Speaker 4: and by the way, we've given one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 4: so we've got some on the ground stuff going on,

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Speaker 4: which is great and I think it's really important. But

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Speaker 4: I also think the future where a lot of us individuals,

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Speaker 4: people who drive today people anyway, anyone who has a car,

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Speaker 4: if it's a self driving car, should also be able

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Speaker 4: to be put on the lift platform. By the way,

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Speaker 4: I would extend that to Tesla as well. I don't

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Speaker 4: you use the word proprietor. I think that's right. There's

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Speaker 4: no particular reason why as a Tesla owner you wouldn't

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Speaker 4: want to necessarily participate on the lift platform too. So

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Speaker 4: that's kind of the future we're trying to build towards.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it looks to up twenty nine percent, and

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Speaker 3: so I guess the market leaves this vision of the future. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: any evidence that weimo in San Francisco is taking market

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Speaker 4: So we look at Waymou much more as a potential

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Speaker 1: Your partner that Uber's partner.

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Speaker 4: Oh, but they'll be both over time. I'm not making

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Speaker 4: a prediction exactly. I'm simply saying if you're in the

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Speaker 4: you want them utilized. You want them on the road,

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Speaker 4: and the way you put them on the road.

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Speaker 1: Is you don't just do it yourself.

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Speaker 4: You end up partnering with a couple of other people

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Speaker 1: David, I have a.

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Speaker 2: Question about New York City since I'm here. I saw

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Speaker 2: ad somewhere online yesterday that said Uber drivers make thirty

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Speaker 2: five dollars an hour per online hour, which I thought

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Speaker 2: Lyft are locking drivers out of the platform for some

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Speaker 2: so they end up spending hours at their job in

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Speaker 2: which they don't make money. How much longer are you

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Speaker 2: going to be doing that to drivers and why?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So it's frustrating as hell. We do not want to

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Speaker 4: do this. Drivers don't like it.

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Speaker 1: We don't like it. What's going on?

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Speaker 4: First, I don't know about that thirty five dollars an hour. Actually,

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Speaker 4: I think the number that I know for New York

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Speaker 4: got their numbers, we've got ours.

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Speaker 2: But the drivers we followed around are making more like

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Speaker 2: fifteen dollars an hour, right, because they end up being

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Speaker 2: a considerable portion of the day.

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Speaker 1: Totally.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, super super frustrating. It's not something that we want

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Speaker 4: to do. It's something we feel like we're forced to

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Speaker 4: We've done all sorts of work to make sure that

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Speaker 4: drivers never get locked out of the platform. But there's

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Speaker 4: this peculiarity around New York and how the regulations are

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Speaker 4: written that are putting, you know, both the other guys

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Speaker 4: turn drivers supply down just to meet what's called utilization requirement.

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Speaker 4: So believe me, we're talking to the regulators. We don't

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Speaker 4: like it, and I don't think it so it's good

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Speaker 1: And I think it's just having the opposite effect. Lift's

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Speaker 3: I think about some of the partnerships we had the

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Speaker 3: But again, you and I have had this conversation, let's say,

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Speaker 3: The new business lines, for example, Like some people find

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Speaker 3: it really interesting whether you sell more of your data

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Speaker 3: to the OEMs. It's a really interesting case study.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, let me talk about partnerships in general.

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Speaker 4: So you know, we're Our focus is ride share, right,

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Speaker 4: That's what we focus on. So when you focus, you

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Speaker 4: can do great work, which means you can have more riders,

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Speaker 4: more drivers, better experience, better service. But it also means

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Speaker 4: if you want to really meet your customers where they are,

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Speaker 4: you need to partner, right, So we just as a

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Speaker 4: partnership with Door Dash. As you say, I think if

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Speaker 4: it is two great tastes to go great together, I

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Speaker 4: think it's an old resents peanut butter thing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't land.

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Speaker 4: In the UK, but anyway, in the US we talk

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Speaker 4: you kind of know you've you've drunk the col you've eaten,

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Speaker 4: you've eaten the cup. But anyway, the point is you

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Speaker 4: can save up both as a dash pass user. You

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Speaker 4: can save on lift is Lyft, you can save on

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Speaker 4: dash Pass. So that's a great you know, type of partnership.

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Speaker 4: We've already announced and I encourage you to link your accounsel.

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Speaker 4: So but anyway, we'll do more and more of that.

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Speaker 4: So as we provide incredible transportation service, get you out

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Speaker 4: to the world, connect with other people. We want to

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Speaker 4: work with other partners who can make the experience even.

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Speaker 3: Bigger David president electrom what's Lift's plan for the next

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Speaker 3: administration and what the world looks like?

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know exactly what the world looks like,

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Speaker 4: but I can tell you this.

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Speaker 4: of federal level legislation that actually helps us recognize that

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Speaker 4: drivers are they're not full time employees. Frankly, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: Fully, it feels like a blend of both.

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Speaker 4: And how can we find a national strategy that kind

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Speaker 4: of gives them better fits and so forth. That's what

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Speaker 4: we're focused on the national level. We also do a

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Speaker 4: ton of work at the state level and the local level.

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Speaker 4: Here in San Francisco. We met with the mayor a

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Speaker 4: about how can we bring more life to San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Just really quick.

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Speaker 3: HeLa Musk, on Tesla's last segning Schools, said that in

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Speaker 3: the scenario of its Department of Government Efficiency. He'd use

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Speaker 3: that platform to work towards federal level regulation of autonomous

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Speaker 3: cause do you support that idea and what do you

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Speaker 3: want to see happen?

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Speaker 1: I absolutely support it.

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Speaker 4: Of course, you know a lot of work has to

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Speaker 1: But the reason we support it is simple.

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Speaker 4: It's not super fun to have fifty different states to

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes it. You've got to test the things and

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Speaker 1: so forth. A certain point.

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Speaker 4: Though, you need to take a stance, you know, at

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think autonomous vehicles are going to be safer.

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Speaker 4: They know the laws, they follow the laws that you know,

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Speaker 4: they've got eight eyes to our two, so you know they're.

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Speaker 1: Going to be safer.

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Speaker 4: But it's going to be one of the things we're

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Speaker 4: that you know, Frank, it works for all of humanity.

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Speaker 1: Not just for the robots.

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Speaker 3: David Richard LIPSI thank you very much for being here.