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Hello, and welcome back to Equity TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups. Today is Friday, December 12. I'm Kirsten Koroszek, transportation editor, and I'm joined by my cohost, Anthony weekend editor. Hi, Anthony. Hello. I wanna talk about Waymos and babies, and I'm wondering if you saw what happened actually on Monday in which a baby was a woman delivered a baby while her Waymo was en route to a hospital in San Francisco. I did see about that. It seems like, you know, everything went well as far as I can tell. And I think what was kind of striking to me about it was, you know, in the midst of all this excitement, people are pointing out this isn't even the first baby that's been born in a Waymo. There was another that was born in Phoenix. I guess maybe it didn't get sort of the same amount of press coverage, but Waymo did point out this isn't actually the first time. Yeah. One of the things that was pointed out is that there have been incidents as new technology comes and intersects with, like, normal human daily life that these types of things happen. And and there was a time when there were babies it was news when babies were being born in Ubers, and, you know, there's a kid walking around today apparently with the name Uber because of that. I I'm I'm kind of wondering if this child is gonna be named Waymo. I really hope not. Don't name your kid named Waymo. The line that got me was that a spokesperson said that the vehicle was, like, thoroughly cleaned right afterwards, which I was like, oh, good. Thanks. Thanks for that. You know, you read the story and you're like that. You feel warm and fuzzy, and then you probably think, well, I may not wanna be the one in the car immediately after. So it's it's good to clarify that. I can't wait for the interview. Hopefully, there will be of of this mother because she made a choice to, like, hail the Waymo robotaxi. And I would love to get, you know, just to hear from her about why that over an Uber or, you know, let's say a traditional taxi. So, you know, why are people making these decisions to choose a robotaxi over a human driven vehicle? You know, I wanna mention, before we move on to the deals, by the way, that speaking of robotaxis, Sean O'Kane, one of our senior reporters here at TechCrunch, is on the ground at the Rivian event, their autonomy and AI event. And this was we expected it to be all about how they're gonna, you know, do hands off or expand their hands off driving and add this AI assistant, which I had a scoop on earlier this week. But they hinted at, eventually, ride share, which is like autonomous ride share, meaning robotaxis. So I didn't they have provided …