Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made clear on Wednesday: he believes that the company’s decision to leave his autonomous management program was a mistake. Kalanick said in the Abundance Summit In Los Angeles, “Look, [new management] He killed the autonomous car we had. At that moment, we were really just behind Waymo, but we probably updated, and we were going to spend in a short time. . . I wasn’t directing the company when that happened, but you know, one could say: ‘I wish we had an autonomous product to share at this time. That would be great. ‘”
Uber sold its autonomous unit in a Sale of fire to the Autonomous Technology developer Aurora in 2020, three years after Kalanick was forced to lower. At that time, it made sense; The autonomous driving was bleeding effective, and Uber had already spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort. Now, Waymo’s self -employed cars are tools around the bay area, Los Angeles, Phoenix and appear in new markets.
Waymo recently associated In Austin with Uber, and Uber is betting on his platform will be essential to increase the service. But businesses are business and associations hesitate. If Waymo decides that he does not need an intermediary, Uber, once the future of transport could be trapped in reverse.