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…You must have experienced this already with Uber. Yeah. We have this unbelievably unfortunate circumstance in Phoenix, and it caused us to completely redesign how we build for safety first, et cetera. Ultimately, because of the pandemic, we decided to get out of self-driving, which I think was a good decision because our core skill set is building this demand network, connecting demand to supply in a dynamic way, et cetera. We now get to work with a bunch of partners. Waymo's a partner, Aurora's a partner, et cetera, so we get to work with a much larger ecosystem. But I think the question of that last 2%, and then what safety will society underwrite to? Those two questions are, for me, unanswerable. My instinct is that you will see small scale. Continued experiments get bigger over the next 5 years, but it's going to take a good 10 years for it to be a material part of our network or transportation at large. That's a guess. I'm curious too. Also, I want to ask, given both your job, and you and I both live in San Francisco, something crazy has happened in the past six, eight months that it's now happening in San Francisco. For 15 years, everybody's been like, yeah, self-driving cars, it's happening tomorrow and like, yeah, yeah.…

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