mind—bogglingly huge mining vehicles from the likes of cat and komatsu are driving themselves throughnsists of radar, lidar on the top, and then a positioning system which is an inner unit measuring unit, gps, tied together by the planning system to drive the truck. the best way to avoid an obstacle is to never get close enough to actually come in contact with it at speed, so pick it up at a very long range and then verify and correct it at what we calla mid—range, well within stopping distance. so how fast can we going this thing? this truck is capable of going 40 mph. oh, my word. and we are really wanging it round the corners as well! it's not shy about cornering! once we are loaded, it's a whole different track as well. you have 400 tonnes, carrying around. right. and is the vehicle aware that it's loaded and it drives differently? correct. but the trucking and mining industries are huge employers, so self—driving technology will inevitably lead to significant job losses. autonomous trucks are safer than human operators, - a couple of reasons why. they don't fatigue, they do exact

mind—bogglingly huge mining vehicles from the likes of cat and komatsu are driving themselves throughconsists of radar, lidar on the top, and then a positioning system which is an inner unit measuring unit, gps, tied together by the planning system to drive the truck. the best way to avoid an obstacle is to never get close enough to actually come in contact with it at speed, so pick it up at a very long range and then verify and correct it at what we calla mid—range, well within stopping distance. so how fast can we going this thing? this truck is capable of going 40 mph. oh, my word. and we are really wanging it round the corners as well! it's not shy about cornering! once we are loaded, it's a whole different track as well. you have 400 tonnes, carrying around. right. and is the vehicle aware that it's loaded and it drives differently? correct. but the trucking and mining industries are huge employers, so self—driving technology will inevitably lead to significant job losses. autonomous trucks are safer than human operators, - a couple of reasons why. they don't fatigue, they do exa

i'd of the long weekend in japan, you had earnings out with names like komatsu and the yen trading below the level. i the handle with plenty of data on hand from japan including inflation and factory output. the offshore yuan trading near a three-month high ahead of april pmi data due out this friday. on thursday, putting the csi 200 for the past month in three. haidi: asia beats coming out of u.s. big tech. amazon encouraging investors the company's pandemic momentum is not wayne i as the world -- is not waning as the world begins to reopen. let's get it over to ed ludlow for the details. what were the highlights? ed: the main takeaway was the outlook for the second quarter. 110 to $116 billion in sales. significantly higher than wall street's expectations. the concern is the boost to the amazon e-commerce business and its cloud business, what happens when the vaccine rollout is successful and we come back to pre-pandemic conditions? the outlook gives us a sense of the sense amazon has. that is what the street was paying attention to. you guys have a fantastic chart. 24 consecutive quar

. >> japan's komatsu is among them. we had asia's biggest digger maker posting a rebound.e will have to see how conservative projections may be when it comes to recovery. we have seen mining machinery continue to be a bright spot. the outlook is looking sell at a given the order backlog of 2.5 years. the company is expecting higher steel prices. this is ahead of the may 11 listing of this better unit, which has posted 81,000,000,000,001 -- 81 trillion won. shery: this is bloomberg. ♪ (text chime) (text chime) (text chime) (sighs) (text chime) (chuckles) (text chime) it's the biggest week in television. watchathon week is your chance to finally watch shows you missed for free. now you get to talk about them with your friends, no matter what time it is. say "watchathon" into your voice remote and watch for free >> asia's t open or trade. shery: our top stories this hour. asian markets pointing lower after mixed results from big tech in the u.s. investors now await pmi data due in the next hour. clamp down as test escalates on the financial arm of 13 companies including tence

another one along the lines is komatsu.rger caterpillar, they are a big manufacturer of heavy equipment. they are benefitting from the expansion in the china mining industry that is one we still like. a third one is one that is not on people's radar. that is essentially utilities. this is not your coal fire utility like duke or coned this is waste water treatment. there's $60 billion going toward pipes and waste water treatment and there's just a lot of potential left in this name. 60% comes from waste water management >> you said you avoid names like duke energy and coned. why is that? >> they are the coal and old style electric generation. we're just looking toward renewables and the waste water management side of things. >> mariann, in terms of things you might be on the lookout for and things you might be concerned about if you start to see this bill get eaten up a little bit in congress if there is not agreement if the democrats don't stay together in terms of what they plan to push through? >> i think it is more of a