
Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $500 million Uber Technologies, Inc. to speed up efforts to bring an autonomous ride-hailing service to market. Each company will integrate its technology into purpose-built Toyota Sienna minivans that will be deployed on Uber's network.
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The bundle of legislation passed by the New York City Council also mandates that the city sets a minimum pay rate for drivers.
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Uber has laid off its self-driving car operators in Pittsburgh, as the company rethinks its autonomous vehicle strategy following the fatal crash in Tempe, Ariz. earlier this year, reports Quartz.
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The San Francisco-based ride-hailing group launched the EV Champions Initiative yesterday in Austin, Los Angeles, Montreal, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento, Calif.
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The comments follow a recent court settlement with Waymo, as well as a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber test vehicle in Arizona.
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A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board found that Uber does not enable the automatic braking feature while its self-driving test vehicles are under computer control to “reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior.”
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According to the Arizona Republic, about 200 Uber employees in Arizona, most of them vehicle drivers, will lose their jobs.
Read More →Wheels, Inc. will begin offering commercial fleet clients access to Uber for Business to allow drivers to utilize the ride-hailing service and centralizing billing of the trips.
Read More →California state regulators recently proposed a pilot program that would allow passengers to ride in driverless vehicles, even without a safety driver present.
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Uber has halted all testing for self-driving vehicles after what is considered the first fatality by an autonomous car.
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