GM CEO Reveals the Truth About AI Cars the Future of Driving
We're hoping for 28, right?
Yeah, no, I mean, that's what the team is working for.
Imagine being able to take your eyes and hands off the wheel,
go through your work emails, watch your favorite TV show, maybe grab lunch.
Gemini coming out next year, right?
So you will be able to talk to your vehicle.
It's going to be able to even alert you before something happens,
so you can take care of it.
This is Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors,
one of the most powerful people in the automotive world
and the woman leading the transformation of how humanity moves.
This is becoming a robot and eventually you can see a world
where it's acting on your behalf fully autonomously.
AI is changing everything.
It's no longer just a car.
It's an assistant that might know you better than anyone.
So the real question is, are we ready for it?
Mary, thank you so much for doing this.
I'm so excited to host you on Silicon Valley Girl.
I'm really excited to be on Silicon Valley Girl
and have a chance to talk to you and tell you what's going on
Oh yeah, I'm a proud owner of a Cadillac Escalade.
It was one of the first with the supercruise.
I was dying to get it, so we had to go to LA
because Bay Area was sold out.
Went to LA, got it, and we've been driving it since.
It's such a good investment,
especially when you have technology mixed with quality, right?
Because you still want to feel good in your car.
Today you presented a lot of new updates.
Let's imagine 2030, I'm in my new Escalade.
What is the experience like?
Well, I think one of the things is,
it's still going to be very personalized.
And we think we can continue to advance the vehicle.
We talked about adding the Google Assistant.
We'll follow up with our own assistant
that's much more integrated into the vehicle,
leveraging vehicle data,
get to know you, know the vehicle,
so that it can even be a more customized experience.
And then when you think about what we can do
from an autonomy perspective,
we shared that we'll start with highway autonomy
where you can literally take your eyes off the road.
And then we'll continue to expand that into urban locations.
And by 2030, I'm kind of done making predictions
as it relates to autonomy,
because I think it is one of the hardest challenges
from a technological perspective.
But I think we're going to make advancements
like we do today with Super Cruise.
And we'll make those advancements
once we have eyes off from a highway perspective.
And so in 2030, I think people are going to see
that their vehicle allows them
to lead a much more integrated life,
that the vehicle makes their life easier,
makes them more efficient,
gives them back some time.
All right, welcome to the new Cadillac Escalade.
That's the driving experience of 2028.
When you don't have to look out and watch the cars,
you don't have to put your hands on the wheel.
You just go, have your TV screen here,
catch up on your emails.
Ah, this is what I'm waiting for.
And also like, because I always have my kids in the back, right?
I can just pass things, I can talk to them,
and the car will be driving by itself.
Oh my goodness.
I love the screen situation.
I love that now we have like a full-scale TV section here.
There's a screen for the passenger.
The seats are almost identical to what I have now
with the sound system here.
They have the purse section right here.
So you can put your bag.
It's big.
The charger, everything's electric.
The steering wheel is again, very similar to what I have.
This is the technology.
I think this is where they track your eyes and your hands.
I cannot wait till 2028 to start driving this vehicle.
I love how the Cadillac is this mix of technology and luxury.
Because we have, you know, very smart vehicles in the market,
but they don't feel like luxury.
This feels beyond luxury.
The blue stitches, like all the details.
It feels like it's a car from the future because of the design,
but also they maintain the classic design,
adding all the details.
Another fascinating use case that I got from the presentation
is that imagine something's wrong with the vehicle
and you need to take it to service.
Now, ideally in 2028, your vehicle detects the problem by itself
because it's AI powered.
Second, it knows when you need the car.
So in the time when you don't need the car,
it will just take itself to the service center,
get serviced, come back to your house for you to be ready to move.
How do you look at competition?
Because there are already companies that are doing full autonomy.
What do you think about that?
Like about this gap?
I think if you look at who's doing full autonomy,
you know, you have, it's in the robo-taxi arena.
And so that's a very, and generally in a very concise ODD,
even if it's in different cities, it's an operating area.
Oh, got it.
So it's like, yeah.
Right.
And so I think when you look at,
we're talking about something much more broad on highways at speed
and then moving into urban.
So I think when we look at it from a personal autonomous,
we think we'll be among the leaders in doing that and doing that safely.
Understand what the robo-taxis are doing,
but it is different than when you get into personal autonomy
and you have to integrate back and forth between
I'm driving the vehicle and I'm responsible to the vehicle is taking control.
It's actually a much more complex system to solve.
Gemini coming out next year, right?
So you will be able to talk to your vehicle.
You'll be able to ask like, where's the nearest, whatever,
we don't need gas stations, but the nearest service, et cetera.
What is the most compelling use case that you've seen with Gemini?
Like what makes it stand out?
I think when you look at AI and the fact that, you know, you can,
it's not just, you know, play the latest Taylor Swift song,
which I'm a Swifty, so love, but it can be much more of,
hey, I'm headed here.
Can you route me on the way?
I'd like to stop and get, you know, a coffee at my favorite coffee shop
or, hey, I'm kind of hungry.
I'm not familiar with this area.
Where's the best place for me to get a turkey sandwich?
You know, kind of thing.
I mean, you can just ask it like my, or my favorite food is X
and it can help integrate that
and make sure you're going to the best restaurant.
So it's going to take all that information
and it's going to be able to do that as we get further along.
It's going to be able to even integrate more
and know how the systems in the vehicle are working
and alert you before something happens so you can take care of it.
So I think it's going to be a journey, you know,
from what we have today to what we'll have with Google.
And then the further integration with General Motors
will even be able to pull more information from the vehicle
to make it even more personalized.
I'm excited about AI in vehicles.
So you're going to integrate with Gemini.
And I have a question from the user standpoint.
Is it the same Gemini I have in my phone?
Like, I mean, does it have information about me
or is it a specific Gemini for the vehicle
that is not connected to me as a person?
Okay, good question.
So today we talked about almost like two timelines, actually.
One is going to be...
You might already heard this from Google as well,
which we are closely partnering with.
Google Assistant is going to evolve
and become Google Gemini in the vehicles.
So therefore, that's going to be where the journey starts.
So that's going to be the first upgrade.
The second thing is, in addition, in parallel,
we're working on developing our own assistant
that is 4GM by GM.
We will use, of course,
providers who are already providing large language models.
We're not going to be in the business
of developing a front-end model or a foundation model.
We will build on top of technologies,
but we're not ready yet to disclose
what backend we're going to be using.
But our goal with that GM assistant
is to build something that is deeply contextually aware.
Because I think we all know this.
Contextual AI is where the magic is going to unlock.
Now, we can get nerdy.
We're talking about Silicon Valley here,
where we will design a system
where our assistant, our agent,
will be able to talk to other agents.
Because the world you're describing is exactly that, right?
Because you are going to have this graceful handoffs.
You're going to say,
hey, I'm in New York.
Look at the next three flights available.
The AI should learn you prefer to fly,
let's say, with United.
It should talk to the United agent and say,
here's the three flights that you might want to.
So that's the goal.
What we want to create an Uber agent, an Uber assistant
that is the GM assistant
that can broker those type of interactions.
Love it.
Let's imagine 2050.
Okay.
What driving looks like with AI?
Let's be super futuristic.
Because you're building this, right?
You probably are thinking about those days.
Okay.
What is your wildest?
2050.
When is that?
So it's 25 years from now on.
So like we talked about earlier today,
the level of autonomy I think is going to continue to increase.
I think Mary even alluded to it in her presentation today
where we will reach a world
where the car would be doing things
even without you in the car.
Where it could run errands on your behalf.
Where it could take itself to be car washed and serviced
and change the tires.
So I think 25 years is a long time
and I reserve to be wrong.
And thank God it's such a long time.
Well, we got this earlier.
Something you described.
It's already feels like it's a possibility now.
Again, it's possible.
I think it's now we can actually again
get a little bit nerdy around
like the diffusion of innovation, right?
It's not equally distributed, right?
We are experiencing that today.
However, maybe the economics are not there yet
for it to be mass scale, right?
They're in pockets, right?
The robo-taxi experience.
Those are expensive cars to build
with those sensor sets.
But in 25 years, one could imagine
the sensors get cheaper.
The AI models we use get smarter.
So therefore the world where we're seeing
the car truly fully autonomously behaving on your behalf.
I think will be real in 25 years.
The actual robot that we're going to have
in our household, right?
Exactly.
I mean, it's one of the robots, right?
I think Sterling said this way.
This is a purpose specific robot
that provides the mobility.
We are going to have purpose specific robots, right?
We are going to have probably humanoids in our house
helping with home chores.
We will have quote unquote robots
maybe helping with education.
And yes, this is a becoming a robot.
And eventually you can see a world
where it's acting on your behalf fully autonomously.
Wow.
Okay, flying cars?
Why not?
And when it comes to technology.
So I asked one of my friends
who's also working on like self-driving
like when will be the year
when I can just put my kids in the car
and the car will take them to school?
When do you think this is coming?
And is it available right now
from the technology perspective?
Because he said from technology perspective
we can do it now, it's just the regulation.
Well, I think right now
we do have a patchwork of regulation.
We're hoping for one federal regulation
because I think that will unlock autonomous technology.
I think a lot of it, being a mother myself
although my children are adults now
is looking at, you know
when is the right time to do that?
So I think, you know
from a technology perspective, we'll get there.
And then it's going to have to be a judgment piece
of how old is your child?
Where are they going?
All of that.
And so, you know, we're on our way to get there.
And, you know, I think that we'll get to a point.
I think we need to get to full, you know
as we start with L4 highway, obviously, you know
you're still in the urban area
is going to need to take responsibility for driving.
So I think that'll happen over time.
So when we're driving, right?
Right now the vehicle is watching us
and it's seeing like my eye movements and everything.
Is it like civilians?
Like, does it read my conversation?
Like what happens if the government wants to take my data?
Like the privacy?
Well, and this is where, you know, we have a new
over a year now, a privacy officer that is working
across the organization, helping people understand
we want to make sure we're following
all the privacy requirements.
And, you know, a lot of the information
we feel is the customer.
So the customer has to give the company permission
even if we're going to use it
from an anonymized perspective.
So everything we do will be with a focus
on privacy and security, and then also cybersecurity.
So that we have dedicated people
in the company that focus
on making sure we understand the laws
and that we're following all of them.
And, you know, even more so doing what we think
consumers would want us to do.
Mary brought up something
that couldn't be more relevant today, privacy.
And the truth is AI already knows more
about me than I realize.
It knows what I buy, what I search for,
how I move, sleep, and work.
We rarely stop to think where all
that information actually goes
or who might have access to it.
Can you imagine that in just a few years,
even my car will probably know everything about me,
what time I leave home, how often I call my mom
because I call her almost every day when I'm driving.
And with home robots now starting to appear,
they'll soon have a window
into every detail of family life.
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And now back to our conversation with Mary.
The next step is taking your eyes off the road.
Right. And that is what we, you know,
we are going to be delivering in the 28 timeframe
with, again, with first from a highway perspective.
So that's, that will happen.
And then we'll keep advancing that
and get to urban, et cetera.
So, you know, that's coming in the not too distant future.
It's really right around the corner.
We're hoping for 28, right?
Yeah. No, I mean, that's what the team is working toward.
And, you know, when I look at what we've been able to build
with all of the resources we have
from a software perspective,
and then what we had from the team that's done super cruise,
along with the cruise resources,
bringing them all together,
then they're doing it right now.
So that's what makes me really excited.
What we announced today
is an eyes off autonomy capability.
Nothing of that sort exists in the market today.
And when you think about that,
you're basically asking the driver to take your eyes off,
not pay attention at all on the road.
That's a very, very high bar.
And for us to safely maneuver different conditions
that we spoke about here in the demo,
we need sensor redundancies to be built in
so that the car can handle very complex scenarios
in all weather conditions
without requiring human intervention.
Like human intervention cannot be a backup.
That cannot be a safety valve.
And we are not going to use it.
So we are going.
So even if something's going on,
there won't be a situation where the car just flashes around,
like take over, take over, take over.
So you're excluding that.
So we will have situations
where when the car is exiting its operational domain.
So the product right now will launch with highways only.
So we will only be able to use this product
when you're on the highway.
When you're off the highway,
this product will not be available.
And so when you're on the highway, you can use it.
But as you are going to come to an exit,
we will ask you to take over the control.
You have three different systems, right?
You have glider, you have cameras,
and you have a radar.
Can you talk to me about the difference
between the three systems?
Yeah, so what we wanted to share here
is that how the different sensors come together
to provide a 360 degree continuous information
to our driving system
so that it enables it to make splits
or even fraction of a second decisions.
It can see further, react faster
than a human would ever can
and can work in all weather conditions.
When do you think the full autonomy is coming?
You know, I think we're going to keep approaching that.
And as Sterling talked about, Sterling Anderson,
who was our chief product officer,
we're going to keep working
and making sure we do that safely.
So it'll be, you'll see incrementally
that we'll keep adding, adding from a,
you know, the area in which you can do it
to the complexity of the environment.
So I learned, I first started making predictions
about autonomy back in 2016.
So I, as I look now, we're going to,
we're going to put it into the vehicle
as soon as it's ready
and it can be deployed safely.
And that's what will be the gating factor.
So safety is the main concern right now?
Safety is something, you know,
General Motors has a rich history
of having that relationship of trust
with our consumer that they,
they know we put a lot of thought
into our systems being safe.
And so we want to put that same level
of prioritizing safety that we have done
in Super Cruise into,
as we get to, you know, L4 Highway
and then we'll expand from there.
And Super Cruise,
you mentioned 700 million miles.
Yes.
No accidents.
Correct. Correct.
That is fascinating.
Yeah. Well, and again, it's, we know vehicles
and we've really looked to make sure
that the technology is well-validated.
So we're very proud of our safety record
and we work to continue to get better every day
and give more features like trailering
and, you know, integration with Google Maps.
So there's new features
and new roads being added to,
to Super Cruise all the time.
So we talked about AI transforming
the driving experience.
How is it transforming the production?
Well, I think we're, we're leveraging,
I mean, I think it's such an interesting time right now
when you look at the power
of artificial intelligence
and we're focusing on the main areas in the business
of how do we use it to improve manufacturing.
Sterling Anderson talked about
one of the things that General Motors has
that is unique is all of this information
and data of how things are manufactured.
And I think when you look at that
and the power of data to really help advance AI,
we're in a unique position
to make our manufacturing processes more efficient,
serve our operators better.
When we think about designing the vehicle,
you know, looking at the areas that we can,
that right now people are doing,
how do we make it more efficient
and allow our engineers to really focus
on optimizing technology, you know, safety.
It allows us to do more validation.
There's so much from that perspective.
And then from a, how we go to market,
imagine leveraging artificial intelligence
to really understand the customer better
and reach that customer in a more focused way
so they get the information they want.
There's been so much advancement in that space as well.
And then lastly, what I would say
is also putting the tools in the hands of our employees.
One of the things I've encouraged everyone
at the company to do is become familiar with it
because it's easy to kind of be a little bit wary of it
if you don't understand it.
Once you use it, I think it really,
and I make sure I'm constantly using it
even in my daily life, unrelated to work
to just see the power of it.
Because once you use it, you use it for this
and you're like, oh, I can use it for this.
It's, you know, one of the things my daughter does
that I think is so interesting.
She's going to college to get her master's degree
and she'll be like, I'd like a shopping list
with I'm gluten-free, with I need it to be healthy.
I want it to be this level of calories
and I don't want it to have too many different things
that I have to buy.
So give me the recipes for a week.
Yeah.
And boom.
And she's like, mom, it's really good.
And it really works.
What's your favorite use case?
Just the other day, I've been having some shoulder pain.
And so I got the test results.
And of course, I get it now on the portal
before you have anything back from your doctor.
I put it into, this time I used GPT
and it came back and it's like,
yeah, you've got a tendon that's inflamed.
And of course it's my mother who passed away many years ago,
but she always used to tell me to sit up straight.
And some of it is for,
some of my soreness is because of posture.
I'm like, okay, my mom, I've got to listen to you.
I've got to sit up straight.
But I mean, I think I never before I would have waited,
you know, to hear from the doctor.
And I was able to go in and understand what it is
and understand what I need to do to alleviate it.
So, I mean, just a couple of years ago,
you know, you would have had to wait for the doctor.
So, and then, you know, there's the easy one of,
I look in the fridge, what do we have?
Okay, give me something interesting to make.
Take a picture, yeah.
Oh yeah, you know, that's a really good point.
Take a picture even more so than saying,
I have this, this and this.
I'll do that.
Yeah, I do that all the time.
What about work processes?
What have you optimized with AI for you personally?
For me, I think it's how do I, you know,
write much more quickly when I'm writing an email
or how do I get information
if I want to learn something about a new technology,
just asking the question.
So, boom, I get the information.
I can read it as opposed to having to send it to someone else,
say, hey, can you give me a, you know, a summary of this?
So, I mean, just so much more information is digestible,
you know, is given back to you in a very digestible format.
I'm using it several times a day
and then also, again, how I do my work.
Let's get back to factories and workers.
If somebody wants to,
someone who's inspired by your journey,
when you started working for GM when you were 18
and now you're the CEO,
if somebody wants the same journey
and they're thinking, you know what?
Entry-level jobs being replaced with AI
and how do I repeat this journey in the current environment?
What would be your advice?
Well, first of all, if you want to be in the auto industry,
I mean, I would make sure
that you get into the core of the business.
Joining to work as a manufacturing person in our company,
I started as an engineer working in a plant,
knowing how, and from when I started over 40 years ago to now,
there's so much has advanced in the plants,
but understanding what it takes
to put a car on the road with high quality,
to do it efficiently with an engaged workforce,
I think that's so important.
So I still, I always encourage people,
whatever industry you're excited about,
make sure you're in the core of it.
You're in how we design vehicles, all the software,
how we make vehicles, how we go to market.
I would, in an industry you're excited about,
go in and join a company and really immerse yourself
in where they are today.
So many people who are graduating from college
or coming in with certificates are,
they have so much knowledge already
from the way technology, they leveraged it
to go through their schooling at whatever level they are.
You bring all that and you can immediately say,
hey, here's how I can make it better.
I was talking a couple of years ago
of an employee who joined the company
and it was in our finance area.
And he had got a job and he said,
yeah, I was able to use these tools I used from college
and able to take what was usually gonna take three days
and I could do it in three hours.
I mean, I think, so I think what somebody
who's starting their career, they have to realize,
you know, they really have a lot of knowledge
in the way they learn to do work
that they can bring into the workplace.
And that's what we're trying to do right now
across many functions of, for instance, in human resources.
How do we take some of the things
that a human resource professional needs to do?
That is, you know, getting the data in the right place
and getting that information,
getting that done more effectively with AI
so that person can have more of a high touch
with the people that are in the area
that he or she is supporting.
Those are things I think we can do
that that human connection is gonna become more important
and the quality of it
because the person isn't spending all the time
doing some of the more routine things
that they can really understand that person better,
understand the process better, work for higher quality.
I think it's really going to advance.
What are the personal traits
that you're looking for when hiring?
I think you have to have someone
who is passionate about what they do.
I also would say, you know, a high quality person,
integrity, work hard.
High quality person.
Yeah, yes.
Somebody who, you know, is willing to come in and work hard
and wants to learn and, you know, understands.
One of the things I talk about at GMI,
we're gonna do the right thing even when it's hard.
And integrity is such an important piece of it.
We talk at General Motors winning with integrity
because if you win without it, you really haven't won.
And so people who are aligned with the company's values
but are passionate about the work,
willing to work hard and curious that they wanna learn
because technology is advancing.
In any industry, it's advancing so quickly
that if you don't have a learning mindset
and a curiosity to like, hmm, how can I make this better?
I wanna go learn about that.
I think that to me is what's gonna separate
and empower people to do things
and have careers that we can't even imagine right now.
Is there anything that keeps you up at night in AI age?
Yes, I mean, of course.
I mean, I think it's so important
to adopt artificial intelligence
and all technology responsibly and do it well.
But I think as we go forward, companies that say,
hey, I'm gonna wait, I'll sit this lap out,
I'll see how it goes.
I think you're gonna be so far behind.
So to me, it's making sure are we doing the right things
and are we really engaging our workforce
and empowering them as opposed to,
them being weary of it.
I think that's a big piece that we're doing.
I feel good about the strategy we have
and we've been adaptable.
I mean, the world is changing dramatically
in the auto industry from a regulatory perspective,
from a supply chain perspective,
from a consumer perspective.
What people are expecting from a vehicle now, right?
Exactly.
Because everything is smart suddenly.
It is.
So I think I have a healthy paranoia about that
to make sure we're on the cutting edge.
I send a lot of emails to my team or see them and say,
what are we thinking about this
or have you thought about this
or are we aware of this?
And nine times out of 10,
or I should say 99 times out of a hundred,
like, yes, we're on it, we're already doing that.
But I'm gonna keep asking those questions
because I think it's so important.
And I think General Motors is an iconic company
and I wanna make sure it's here 100 years from now.
And the only way we're gonna do that
is by making sure we leverage
and embrace technology responsibly.
When everything's going on,
when you're looking at everything happening,
what helps you stay grounded and stay focused?
Any rituals?
For me, obviously I work hard, but my family.
I'm blessed.
I've been married for 40 years to my husband.
We met in college.
And so just I think what grounds me
and what re-energizes me
is spending time with my family and friends.
Is there a certain limit that you say?
Like, I spend weekends with my family,
evenings are family.
Do you have something like that?
I think you have to be more flexible.
But one of the things I try to do,
I try to make sure I'm pretty much up to,
have everything done
as I kind of close the laptop on Friday evening.
And then I try to not be glued to my phone
or my computer on Saturday,
just to get a chance to recharge.
And then usually Sunday afternoon,
I'm starting to prepare for the next week.
But I find that time,
just even if it's a half a day or a day
to take that breath,
it recharges me to think about things differently.
And literally when I get back to something,
I'll be like, oh, you know what?
I'll look at it and I'll see something different.
I'll look at it from a different perspective
that I think allows me to be more effective.
And I encourage people to find what recharges them.
But I think in today's age,
there's things that are happening so quickly.
You can't just say,
oh, Friday afternoon to Monday morning,
I'm never gonna look.
It's just, I don't think it's the world we're living in.
So you still have to compromise.
You have to work.
But you do, I would say on the flip side,
you do have to make sure
you're finding that way that you recharge
or you're, you know,
one of the things as a working mom,
you know, people,
somebody gave me really great advice and said,
sometimes the most urgent
or often the most urgent is not the most important.
That's 100% true, most of the time.
Right.
And so you have to, you know,
step back and say,
am I constantly letting
what appears to be the most urgent
take me away that I'm never doing
what's the most important?
Because I know you have two young little girls.
Is it Lily and Emily?
Oh, yes.
Yes.
And Precious, they're little, right?
Yeah.
We just got a puppy for them, so.
Oh my gosh.
What kind of puppy did you get?
A toy poodle.
Oh my God.
We have a dog, Hunter,
and he's, I think,
such an important part of the family as well.
But I mean, I think your children grow up quickly
and you don't get a do-over.
So I also, as a working mom,
as, you know,
there's times in my career where I did
what some people would say were crazy things
to make sure I was at that soccer game
or at that hockey game
and then was still able to get my work done.
So I look back
and I'm glad I made those investments and trade-offs.
That's great.
And what about your relationship with your husband?
40 years, that's a lot.
And I need tips,
especially when, you know,
you have this job
and you're traveling all the time.
What's the best tip that you can give for women
who are trying to build their career,
but also be a good wife?
Well, you know,
I'm really fortunate that my husband and I,
we kind of build our careers together.
And he's an engineer with an MBA
and worked in consulting much of his career.
And so he understands the business really well.
And, you know,
he can be a great sounding board.
He's also a great supporter.
So I'm very fortunate to have a husband who,
you know, I feel like it's a partnership
and I'm really proud of everything he's accomplished.
He's proud of me.
And, but we also,
we can give each other good quality feedback
and sometimes we need it.
Support system.
That's awesome.
I know it's hard to choose your favorites,
but what's your favorite GM car?
Yeah, that is really hard for me
because I have the opportunity
to run global product development.
So I felt like every vehicle in the portfolio
played such a special role.
I would say though,
right now I love driving a Hummer EV.
Oh my God, that car.
I love driving that vehicle.
It's got four wheel steer.
So it's so maneuverable.
And I feel like when I'm driving a Hummer EV,
I get some respect.
You know, people are like,
Hey, I definitely saw those looks.
But when you gave me the car
for like a week to drive around,
people still come out.
A girl?
Yeah.
Definitely got those looks.
That's awesome.
But I'm also a big fan of Corvettes.
So, you know, I love the styling,
the speed and the heritage.
And one of the things that makes Corvette so special
is it, you know, the, it's true American.
It's affordable.
It's a Chevrolet.
But, you know, people come to me now
and they'll say like,
Oh my gosh, Mary,
this vehicle is as good as a vehicle
that is three times as expensive.
Like, you know, I really,
General Motors has cracked the code
on this type of performance.
So that's, that's always rewarding.
Yeah. And I have a weird question,
but you're the person to ask it.
Okay.
Flying cars.
You know, there's some physics involved in that,
you know, from like,
you know, there's companies working
on vertical takeoff type of vehicles.
You know, I would never say never
because I think we're innovating
and new technologies are coming every day.
But I think right now I'm going to stay on the road.
Just, is it because of the technology or just,
but I'm thinking like,
do I want to drive
and then have a couple more layers of cars above me?
That from the safety standpoint, that's weird.
If somebody crashes, then it's.
Right. Well, I think about that today
with all that's happening with drones.
And so, you know, and how they're,
how, you know, the, the government,
you know, FAA is managing airspace
and about what levels.
So, like I said, I don't, I, I never say never
because I think we'll continue to advance.
I grew up watching the Jetsons.
So who knows what we'll see in the future.
But I think there are, there's,
there's challenges like you're talking from,
you know, how to, who gets what space.
And I think there's some technology challenges,
but I think in the future, probably,
you know, people will solve those challenges.
Thank you so much, Mary.
It was such a great conversation.
Thank you.
And thanks for the time you've invested
in spending in our vehicles.
I'm glad that you love your Escalade.
The best time.
I love my Escalade.
I enjoyed the Vistig, the Hummer.
And Buick has.
Yes.
The Super Cruise.
I'm like the Buick can now go by itself.
I didn't expect that.
Yes.
You know, Buick has been growing
from a share perspective.
And I'm really proud of it
because it really stands for premium luxury
for someone who maybe doesn't want
what Cadillac stands for of true luxury.
And I'm so proud of that.
I'm proud of that brand
and how the product portfolio
is really continuing to gain share
and conquest customers for us,
which is wonderful.
When we got the Buick,
my daughter entered it and she was like,
is that a Maybach?
Oh my God.
I like her.
And I saw her review of the Vistig.
It was precious.
Thank you.
She loves it.
Thanks a lot.
All right.
Well, thanks so much.
Thank you.

