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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Grunches flagship podcast about the |
0:15.4 | business of startups today is August 16th 2024 I'm Marianne Asavado and |
0:20.7 | joining me today is Tech Crunch senior reporter and editor Kirsten Korsek. |
0:25.2 | Kirsten, what's going on in your world this week? |
0:27.5 | I mean, the only thing really that I'm interested in this world right now is the great |
0:32.4 | waymo honkathon that's been happening in San Francisco. |
0:35.3 | I don't know if you've heard about this. |
0:37.2 | To be clear, it has been resolved now, but this software engineer set up a live stream from her apartment looking down at this parking |
0:45.2 | depot that Weimo Robot taxis were using and every morning around 4 a.m. when they would come home to like sleep I guess. As they were parking |
0:54.8 | they are programmed to honk like you know a car or is reversing into them but |
1:00.3 | when you have like dozens of these robot taxis all parking at once it was like a |
1:05.2 | chorus of honking every morning at 4 a.m. So she set up this live stream with this like |
1:10.5 | low-five beats in the background now so you can observe them. |
1:14.8 | And now the honking has been resolved, |
1:16.9 | but that's been the chatter around the San Francisco streets |
1:20.8 | and on my beat. |
1:21.8 | Oh my goodness. |
1:23.0 | Lofy chill beats to honk and park too. |
1:26.0 | Beautiful. |
1:27.0 | Yes. |
1:28.0 | Yeah. Beautiful indeed. |
1:29.0 | And hey, that voice from hearing, that's Devon Koldaway. |
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