The ride-hailing company is selling Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to rival self-driving car startup Aurora Innovation. If the deal is approved, Uber will take a minority stake in Aurora. (Financial Times)
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The ride-hailing company is selling Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to rival self-driving car startup Aurora Innovation. If the deal is approved, Uber will take a minority stake in Aurora. (Financial Times)
Talking point: In 2018, Uber ATG tapped University of Toronto researcher Raquel Urtasun as the division’s chief scientist. The company’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi—new at the time—made his inaugural visit to announce a $200-million investment for self-driving R&D led by Urtasun at the unit’s Canadian headquarters at MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, one of several cities in which the unit operates. The company’s autonomous-vehicle efforts have faced challenges from the start. In September, an Uber self-driving car operator was charged with negligent homicide after a 2018 incident where a vehicle she was testing struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. The unit was also involved in a trade secret lawsuit against competitor Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary; Uber settled the case in February 2018.
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