Sachin Kansal: belief

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…Oh wow. I've seen those robots. They're very cute. I always wonder how they get to where they're going, but clearly it's working. The Waymo thing, I've totally noticed that Waymo basically in some form has decided to move away from their own app in many cities and Uber is how you get a Waymo, which I don't think a lot of people understand. So what I'm hearing is essentially the strategy is just be the super app for getting around and getting food and Uber drivers are a part of that and part of that is autonomous vehicles. And is the idea over time it will stay that way? There will always a need for humans to drive cars for a long time? I will answer that in two ways actually. I think for a long, long time there will be a need for humans to drive cars. There are pickup and drop-off spots that AVs can't go to today. There are going to be regulatory hurdles that we have to get across before AVs are everywhere and so on and so forth. Second, we have a mission to make sure that we can provide a great earnings opportunity on the Uber platform. Today, that is fulfilled by driving people and delivering food or delivering groceries. But that list is going to continue to expand, and we want to make sure that we offer more and more earnings opportunities on our platform. Even me going back to dogfooding about, I think about a year ago I also started picking up groceries because now we have a pretty large grocery business. And I have gone and I've carried crates of water up a flight of stairs and delivered that to the doorstep. And there are more things that we will do as well. We have a partnership with Walmart where we may send a courier who may pick up 15 different bags and deliver it to 15 different homes. So the need for human drivers on our platform or human earners I would say is just going to continue to increase because we're going to have multiple earning opportunities for them over time. I love that visual of you carrying up big jugs of water to some random person's house.…

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