The chance that we will find self-driving taxis developed by Uber on the road has become very small. The company will stop developing a self-driving car and burn money in the innovation division. Uber wants to sell the part with 1200 employees to the start-up Aurora, which also wants to develop a self-driving car in Palo Alto, California with the support of Amazon.
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Chairman of the Board Dara Khosrowshahi will join the Aurora board. Investors' pressure on Uber to focus more on the taxi service and make a profit was increasing. The corona crisis put the taxi sector under severe pressure and Uber generated a lot less turnover worldwide. Together with other investors, the company now gets 40% of it in the division called Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) Aurora in hands.
“By adding the people and technology of Ubers Advanced Technologies Group to the incredible group we've already gathered in Aurora, we are changing the landscape of the automated vehicle space. With the addition of ATG, Aurora will have an incredibly strong team. said Aurora will be the company best positioned to provide the self-driving products needed to make transportation and logistics safer, more accessible and cheaper. "
Aurora was founded in 2017 wants to offer the benefits of self-driving technology in a safe, fast and broad way. The company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to drive passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and heavy trucks for a variety of applications. Aurora is supported by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh and Dallas.
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