Learn English with the News | Robotaxi Expansion in San Francisco (FREE PDF)

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Welcome back to JForrest English.
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I'm Jennifer, and today we're going to read a news article together so you can become
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fluent in English.
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Let's get started.
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1st I'll read the headline Robo Taxi Expansion Gets Green Light in San Francisco, So we're
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talking about.
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Robo.
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Taxis autonomous.
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Vehicles.
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Selfdriving vehicles.
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So a selfdriving taxi.
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Have you ever been in a selfdriving vehicle?
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I have not.
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So let's talk about this the.
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Expansion gets green light.
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It's appropriate that they.
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Use this idiom.
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This is an idiom in English.
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I will explain what it means in just a second.
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But it's appropriate they.
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Use this idiom because we're talking about vehicles.
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And vehicles obviously use.
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Green light yellow.
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Right light red light frequently.
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So it's very.
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Appropriate they use this.
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Idiom.
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Now, what does this mean?
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The green light in this idiom simply means.
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Approval so the robo.
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Taxi expansion.
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Gets approval.
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Now notice here they omitted.
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The article.
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The the idiom is.
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To get.
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The green light.
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In newspaper headlines, they commonly omit articles to make the headline as.
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Short as possible.
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But grad grammatically.
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It is required so the.
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Idiom is to.
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The green light from someone to do something so you can think of.
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It as approval or?
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Permission both of them.
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Have the same meaning.
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For example, I got the green light from my boss to attend the conference.
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So the verb is get.
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You need to conjugate that.
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This is the past simple.
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I got the green light remember from someone.
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To do.
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Something from my boss to attend the conference, which means I got approval from my boss to
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attend the conference.
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Two, Robo.
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Taxi companies have been given the green light so notice.
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Here because.
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It's no longer the headline.
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They use the correct grammatical structure.
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And notice.
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Here that it's to.
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Be given.
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To be.
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Given the green light, so the companies.
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Were.
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Have been given, which means.
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They've received approval.
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So you can.
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Give the.
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Green light to someone to do something.
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Let's.
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Review these three.
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So this is the sentence.
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I provided above.
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I got the green light from my boss to attend the conference.
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Now I could.
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Talk about my boss giving me the green light.
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To do so.
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Something in this case, I'm talking about receiving approval.
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In this example, I'm talking about my boss giving approval.
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My boss gave me the green light to attend the conference.
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Or I could also use the structure to.
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Be given.
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I've been given the green light to attend the conference Different grammatical.
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They all communicate the same thing.
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Approval permission.
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Two robo taxi companies have been given the green light to start charging for service
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throughout San Francisco.
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The move marks a major expansion.
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Let's take a look at this.
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To mark a major expansion.
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Mark.
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Is a verb.
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To mark and when something the move marks something else.
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A major expansion is simply represents that something has happened.
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So this the.
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Move represents that this has happened.
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For example today.
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Marks our first.
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Wedding anniversary.
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So today represents that something has happened, that our first wedding anniversary has happened,
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so something marks.
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Something and we.
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Usually use.
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This with significant events.
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Like a birthday.
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Anniversary or a national celebration or holiday or an important world event.
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Like.
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This major expansion of.
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Selfless, selfless driving.
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Self driving cars.
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Driving cars autonomous.
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Vehicles.
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The move marks a major expansion for the companies.
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Which previously faced.
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Limits on when or.
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Where they could charge for rides.
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When you.
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Charge for.
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Something it means you require that someone.
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Pay for something.
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So you can charge someone.
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Charge the passengers for.
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Rides, but you don't need to include.
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The someone if it's.
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Obvious, obviously.
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They're charging the.
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People who are.
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Using the service so you don't need to say that to.
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Charge for rides to require.
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That the passengers pay.
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For rides.
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Approval from regulators came despite objections, so remember approval.
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This represents our idiom, the green light.
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So you could say the.
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Green light from regulators came despite objections from police and fire officials, activists
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and others thinking about our other sentence structures.
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You could say the regulators gave.
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Them.
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Them meaning the robo taxi companies.
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The regulators gave.
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Them the green light.
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Objections from police.
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So that would be.
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Said another way, but they have the same meaning and I forgot the.
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Word Light.
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So I.
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Added that in here because it's the green.
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Light this is.
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The expression that represents.
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Approval, so approval.
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From regulators came despite objections from police and fire officials, activists and others.
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All of these groups.
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So this means that these.
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Had objections but.
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They still gave.
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Them the green light.
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They still gave them approval.
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Analysts say the decision could usher in a new.
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Era for driverless car services Let's take a look at this to.
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Usher in the phrasal.
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Verb here is to usher.
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This is our verb.
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To usher something.
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In and in this case the something is a new.
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Era for driverless car services.
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All of this.
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Represents the something.
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When you usher something in is simply means you welcome something or you signal the beginning
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of something and that something is usually an important event.
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So in the world.
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Because.
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Right now.
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Driverless cars, autonomous vehicles are not very common.
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This is.
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An important event.
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For the world, for the.
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Economy so we can usher in this new.
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Era of driverless car services.
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Another.
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Important event that many.
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People usher.
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In welcome is the new year and most.
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People celebrate.
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The new year.
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So you could use this phrasal verb.
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To indicate how?
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Welcome the New Year.
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How you celebrate.
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The New Year.
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We ushered in the new year by celebrating with friends.
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Waimo.
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Which shares a.
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Parent company with Google.
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So somehow, Waimo.
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Is related to.
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Google and Waimo has been offering free rides in ITS.
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Driverless cars?
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Since last year called the decision the true beginning of our commercial operations in
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San Francisco.
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So why Mo is one of the robo taxi companies?
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So obviously they're.
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Going to be very positive about getting the green light.
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So remember why MO as the company, They're the ones receiving approval.
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So you would say?
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Why Mo got the green light?
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To.
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Their robo taxi.
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I'll write that for you.
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So I wrote that for you.
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Here, why Mo got the green light to expand the robo taxi operations.
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Now notice here they said they've been offering free rides.
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And remember.
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Before, I said.
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They can now.
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Start charging.
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So when you charge, you require someone to pay.
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When something is free, they don't have to pay.
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So let's say you you flag.
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Down one of the taxis and you can say, oh, how much is it?
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And they could say, oh, it's free or.
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There's no charge if someone says oh.
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There's no charge, no charge.
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It's another way of saying it's.
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I wrote that here.
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For you, how much is it?
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It's free.
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This is the same as saying there's no charge.
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Driverless car services have.
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Slow to live.
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Up to the promises of transforming transport that accompanied the start of their development
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more than a decade.
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OK, so.
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This.
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Suggests that a decade ago.
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When the.
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Driverless car services.
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Began when they.
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Developed, they said.
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We.
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Will transform the transport industry, but they haven't done that this.
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What is what it means by they've been?
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Slow to live up to the.
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So of course you know what slow means.
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It hasn't happened quickly.
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Let's talk about.
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Live up to the.
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To live up to.
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The promises.
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This means to fulfill the promises.
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Up to the promises, it means you fulfilled them.
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So if you do.
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And if you don't live up to the promises, which?
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Is what they're.
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Suggesting here it means you don't fulfill the promises.
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Now we also.
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Use this.
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Expression with expectations.
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To live up.
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To something very commonly promises and expectations.
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Now if you.
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Live up to.
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It means it's as good as the expectation.
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The expectation is what you think is going to happen.
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So let's.
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Say you're going to a new movie.
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The Barbie Movie.
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Or Oppenheimer and everyone says the movie is amazing, so your expectation is.
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So if you say.
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The movie lived up to my expectation.
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It means.
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It was as good as you were.
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Expecting and remember you were expecting it to be good.
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You could also say it.
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Exceeded my expectations.
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So that means it was better than you expected, but if.
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You say.
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It didn't live up to my expectations.
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It means.
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It was worse.
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Than you were expecting, so here the movie was.
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But it didn't live up to my expectations.
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Because remember.
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You thought the movie?
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Was going to be amazing.
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So your expectation was here, but then the movie was just.
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Here so it.
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Didn't live up to your expectations.
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And.
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Hopefully you always.
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Live up to.
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Your promises, which means you.
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Your promises, if you.
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Say you're going to do something, You live up to that you.
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Do it so driverless car services?
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Have been slow to.
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Live up.
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To the promises of transforming transport that accompanied the.
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Start of their.
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Development more than a.
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Decade ago.
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They have been bogged down by technology.
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OK, let's looked at.
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Also glitches.
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A glitch is a.
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Problem or error and we usually.
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Use this with.
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Technology.
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Technology glitches in this case because it's plural problems.
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Or errors.
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Now when something.
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Bogs.
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Something else down?
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It means that something.
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Like the glitches.
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Prevent someone or something from progressing.
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So this means that the.
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Glitches the errors the.
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Problems are preventing the companies from progressing with their project.
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So they.
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Have been bogged down.
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It's just written in the passive form the companies the robo taxi companies have been
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bogged down by.
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These glitches.
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Have been prevented from progressing by.
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These glitches.
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Not just the.
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There's also safety fears.
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And high.
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Accidents.
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Involving vehicles if something is.
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Here the noun is accident and the adjective.
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Is high profile.
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A high profile accident is an accident that gets a lot of attention.
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So a high profile issue, A high profile.
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Person is an issue or person that gets a lot of attention.
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I wrote that down here.
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Now let's continue.
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The California Public Utilities Commission had twice postponed the vote.
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1st but it was.
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It means it.
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Was rescheduled to a date after August 1st.
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Just been postponed for one day, one week, one month, one year.
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Than scheduled so.
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Delayed.
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The vote?
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And on Thursday heard more than.
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Six hours of.
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Testimony from the public.
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Of the public related to this specific issue of.
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Approving or denying.
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The Robo.
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Taxi expansion.
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So they heard it from both supporters, people who say yes, I.
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The Robo Taxi.
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Companies to expand and then critics, those who say no, I don't want that to.
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Happen the board.
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This is the board.
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The California Public Utilities Commission, that is.
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The board approved.
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The expansion.
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3:00 to.
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So three people said yes, I approve.
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One person said no, I don't approve.
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So there were four.
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People in total on this board.
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Let's continue.
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Critics People who?
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Oppose the expansion.
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Critics.
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Raised concerns about.
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Records and claimed the cars often caused traffic incidents by abruptly shutting down.
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When something shuts down, it stops operating and if it happens abruptly, it means it happens
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quickly and also without any warning.
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Let's look at this example.
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The glitches.
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Remember this was errors or problems.
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The glitches.
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Caused my computer.
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Any warning, you were typing a document and then all of a sudden your computer turned
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That would be abruptly.
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Shutting down.
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Then you could say I'm still waiting on the green light from my boss to buy a new one.
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Because your boss has to give you.
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The green light to buy a new computer because the company is paying for that computer.
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Let's continue in the statement announcing the approval, commissioners acknowledge.
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That data.
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On how autonomous.
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Vehicle safety records.
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With regular cars.
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Was limited.
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So they approved it.
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The commissioners.
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Are the people.
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On this board, the Commission.
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California Public Utilities Commission.
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This is the board and this word Commission, that's where the word commissioners people
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who are on the board.
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People who are part of the.
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That's where that comes from.
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So these people, the four people.
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Even though they.
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Approved the.
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They gave it the green light, they acknowledge.
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They said publicly.
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That they don't have.
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Data on the.
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Safety of the Robo taxis compared to a regular.
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Clearly that did not prevent them from giving the green light and that's the end of our
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article.
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So I have a question for you.
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Do you give me the green light to make more videos?
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Just like this.
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One If so, then you can put in the comments section.
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Of course I want you.
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Jennifer, I give you the green light to make more.
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To practice this.
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Robo Taxi Expansion gets Green Light in San Francisco.
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Two, Robo.
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Taxi companies have been given the green light to start charging for service throughout San
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Francisco.
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The move marks a major expansion for the companies which previously faced.
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Limits on when or where they could charge for.
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Rides approval from regulators came despite objections from police and fire officials,
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activists and others.
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Analysts say the decision could usher in a new era for driverless car services.
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Why?
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Mo, which shares a parent company with Google and has been offering free rides in his driverless
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cars.
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Since last year called the decision the true.
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Beginning of our commercial operations in San Francisco, driverless car services.
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Development more than a decade ago.
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They have been bogged down by technology glitches.
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Safety fears and highprofile accidents involving vehicles.
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The California Public Utilities Commission had twice postponed the vote.
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And on Thursday heard more than six hours of.
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to make way for emergency responders.
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In the statement announcing the approval, commissioners acknowledged that data on how
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autonomous vehicle safety.
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Records compare with regular cars.
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