There’s been a lot of debate about who is responsible when an autonomous vehicle gets in an accident, so it’s interesting that a Maricopa County Grand Jury has indicted the safety driver of an autonomous Uber involved in a fatal crash with one count of negligent homicide. As you’re probably aware, Rafael Vasquez was behind […]
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Uber has announced every vehicle on its platform will be zero-emissions by 2040. If that wasn’t ambitious enough, the company wants 100% of rides in US, Canadian and European cities to be in electric vehicles by 2030. As part of the effort, the company has launched Uber Green in more than 15 US and Canadian […]
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Yandex, Russia’s largest internet company, entered into an agreement with Uber to separate their self-driving car business from their ride-hailing and food-tech joint venture. The new entity, named Yandex Self Driving Group (or Yandex SDG), will be directly owned by the Russian firm and Uber. Yandex will also purchase a portion of Uber’s stake in […]
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Uber and Lyft’s latest bid to delay a preliminary injunction that forces them to classify drivers as employees in California has failed, after a judge rejected their request. The two ride-hailing companies said that they’ll withdraw from the state if they have to change the status of their drivers from contractors to employees, adding that […]
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Uber and Lyft cannot classify their drivers as independent contractors in California, according to the latest court ruling. The decision is a major defeat for the two ride-hailing companies and a result of a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Uber and […]
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Prosecutors in the United States say Anthony Levandowski should spend 27 months in prison after stealing autonomous vehicle-related trade secrets from Google and defecting to Uber. While speaking with a judge ahead of Levandowski’s sentencing next week, government lawyers said the sentence would serve as an important lesson to deter “brazen and shocking” conduct in […]
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<!––> <!––> Toyota has revealed that it owns almost $300 million worth of shares in ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies. The revelation was made with the release of the Japanese automaker’s corporate governance report released on Wednesday. The report confirmed that Toyota held 10.25 million Uber shares valued at 31.15 billion yen ($292.46 million) as of […]
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Uber has signed an agreement with Nissan that makes it easier for drivers using the app in Britain to get a Leaf electric vehicle. While the deal is available to all Uber drivers in the UK, it’s mostly aimed at those working in London, who will have a fleet of up to 2,000 units of […]
Read MoreUber Technologies co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is unloading his shares in the ride-hailing company at a blazing fast pace, selling another $166 million worth of stock between December 11 and December 13, or more than $350 million of his stock just this month. Overall, this brings the 43-year old’s proceeds from Uber’s stock sale […]
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In March 2018, a Volvo XC90 equipped with Uber autonomous technology hit and killed a pedestrian, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, in Arizona. Since then, it took nine months for the company’s autonomous fleet to get back on the road, and, according to head of Uber Advanced Technologies Group Eric Meyhofer, they have implemented a series of […]
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