00:00Enright is at the core of freight technology company that helps our customers who are some of the world's largest
00:05shippers to sort of transition their fleets from where they are today with diesel manual, manual based transportation into electric
00:13and autonomous.
00:14And we do that through the deployment of our platform model, which sort of sits in the middle and orchestrates
00:19all the different parts and the different technologies required to drive that to drive that transition and help them throughout
00:26that throughout that journey and deploy our sort of, you know, electric manual trucks for the first step in terms
00:32of electrification and autonomous vehicles for for the automation of their of their transportation.
00:37Where does Europe stand when it comes to autonomy in the freight sector? Is Europe leading? And if so, in
00:45what parts of the space is Europe leading? And where is it challenged? Where is it falling behind?
00:51I mean, if you look at what's happening on the autonomous side in general, right, freight and robot taxes, I
00:56think what what you've seen over the past 18, 24 months is the U.S. taking a clear leadership position
01:01in terms of the regulatory environment, right?
01:04You see, you know, mass sort of at scale rollouts of robot taxes in in U.S. cities, regulatory frameworks
01:11leaning inwards, especially on the on the on the on the state's sort of state legislative side.
01:17So I think you're seeing that. But that's also creating a pull effect, I would say, with with Europe, right?
01:22We're working across a number of European countries with the regulators in terms of of autonomous regulation and deployment.
01:28And we're seeing the same inward leaning sort of attitude on it on in a European European context as well.
01:34So I think Europe is sort of, you know, seeing the opportunity that that that that exists within, you know,
01:41freight.
01:41But of course, of course, but specifically on the on the on the on the freight side. So I think,
01:47you know, we'll see continuing success in Europe sort of catching up to the U.S.
01:51in terms of the regulatory environment. Big questions right now in terms of AI disruption, AI displacement of jobs. Do
01:58you do you face pushback?
02:00Do you face political pressure in terms of the displacement of jobs in this sector?
02:04I would say, you know, the way that we've thought about our technology, I think is a combination. You're always
02:09going to need to have a human in the loop for each
02:11case, for interaction between at loading base, for example, or other places. So I think when you think about, you
02:17know, a lot of times we think about
02:18automating freight is the only thing about the autonomous technology. But but automated freight is about so much more that
02:24comes into setting up the entire operational workflow and operational flow.
02:29And so if you look at how we're deploying autonomous and technology today, we're our vehicles are fully autonomous and
02:34are driving.
02:35And when they're driving, they're being surveillance by a human in the loop sitting at a remote remote station, you
02:41know, far away from from vehicle in an office setting supervising that transportation,
02:46helping the vehicle take tactical tactical decisions, for example, in in edge cases or interact with humans as as as
02:54as required.
02:55So I think it's, you know, once again, that that gradual process and actually transitioning jobs into a different set
03:02of of of of jobs is, you know, how we think about this transition to to autonomous.
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