Uber is killing off its self-driving truck division

Uber is killing off its self-driving truck division
By Abhimanyu Ghoshal


Reuters reports that Uber is shuttering its autonomous freight truck division after some two years in the space. The company got started with self-driving trucks back in 2016, when it acquired Otto – a startup focused on developing aftermarket kits to allow trucks to cover long distances on freeways autonomously – for $680 million. The purchase netted Uber the talent of Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who built Google’s very first self-driving car. But along with that came trouble: in February 2017, Alphabet’s Waymo – the self-driving vehicle firm spun off from Google – sued Uber for stealing trade…

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