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TechCrunch Mobility: Is $16B enough to build a profitable robotaxi business?

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TechCrunch Mobility: Is $16B enough to build a profitable robotaxi business? A Waymo autonomous taxi outside the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb…
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  • Alphabet is clearly committed to ensuring Waymo's success

    80% confidence
  • Waymo lacks the in-house manufacturing that Tesla has

    80% confidence
  • David Stern pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in Faraday Future, Lucid Motors, and Canoo during the go-go days of mobility funding

    80% confidence
  • There is chatter that Europe could soon follow China in banning concealed door handles

    80% confidence
  • Waymo's acceleration over the past 18 months is undeniable

    80% confidence
  • Uber plans to appeal the decision in the rape case lawsuit

    80% confidence
  • Waymo still must solve several problems, including cost and increasing attention from regulators

    80% confidence
  • Investors, anxious about missing out on the AV party, are jumping into sectors like off-road defense, trucking, forklifts, mining, and construction

    80% confidence
  • The verdict affirms that Uber acted responsibly and has invested meaningfully in rider safety, and will continue to put safety at the heart of everything we do

    80% confidence
  • When asked if $16 billion is enough for Waymo, the answer kept landing in the squishy 'sort of' and 'it depends' territory

    80% confidence
  • Uber would invest capital in its AV software partners, work with AV makers by investing equity or via offtake agreements, and support AV infrastructure partners

    80% confidence
  • David Stern was a close business partner of Jeffrey Epstein who brought him investment opportunities from around the world

    80% confidence
  • Waymo's ridership and autonomous miles driven stats are exploding and will likely continue in that trajectory unless derailed by regulators

    80% confidence
  • Money is flowing into physical AI startups and I expect more deal flow, especially for startups focused on practical applications of automated driving systems

    80% confidence
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Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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