Sundar Pichai on the future of Waymo and the possibility of ever selling Waymo cars directly to people:

"We are so far from a zero-sum construct. It's so early, and the opportunity space seems so vast to me, with so many applications for autonomous driver technology. I expect Waymo to work in a myriad of ways, including with other partners, and I expect those partners to do very well as companies on their own too. I'm very, very bullish on all of that.

The Waymo team is very, very focused on scaling up what they are doing. We just crossed half a million paid rides per week, and the team is razor-focused on scaling that up. The Toronto launch is coming, along with 10 new cities this year.

The next 12 months are going to be more of it in international markets, in other weather conditions, on highways, and everywhere. We are scaling up with this high safety bar we already have, driving with 95% fewer serious crashes compared to regular driving.

The underlying technology we are building is so general that it has all the option values you're talking about built on top of it... If you've looked at us as a company, you've seen us build Android and mobile, even in the AI ecosystem, where we partner with a wide variety of companies. I think we will always work with the ecosystem, and I think there'll be plenty of growth for everyone."