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Ben Gilbert: belief

6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company

“There’s a rental car company in Texas that manages it. Or they’ve partnered (I believe) with Lyft and Uber.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Oct 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…Also, the operations are expensive. In fact, they’re experimenting. Some cities they actually outsource the operations. There’s a rental car company in Texas that manages it. Or they’ve partnered (I believe) with Lyft and Uber. They’re trying all sorts of O&O versus partnership models to operate it. And the operations are like, these are electric cars. They need to be charged, they need to be cleaned, they need to be returned to depots, they need to be checked out, they need to have sensors replaced.…

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