Uber to shut down the project of unmanned trucks

31 July 2018

The company will focus on passenger autopilots

Uber has long been associated not only with the service to order a taxi. The company is one of leaders in the field of the development of unmanned systems. Or was in the spring one of the prototypes of the company killed a pedestrian. After that, Uber has suspended testing of intelligent machines, and now completely refuses to develop a similar system for trucks. This is with reference to own sources reports tekhnoportal TechCrunch.

About the beginning of the test trucks with the autopilot was objavljeno on the eve of the tragic event. Then Uber launched prototypes of "smart" trucks on the roads of Arizona. A new direction was established on the basis of the service commercial transportation of goods Freight Uber launched in 2017.

In General, the history of freight drones, Uber has launched in 2016. Then the company bought a startup launched by Waymo native of Anthony Lewandowski. Later Waymo (a subsidiary of Alphabet or Google) Lewandowski accused in the theft of several thousand confidential files. For spying Waymo wanted to get Uber $1.86 billion, but later agreed the company agreed to more modest compensation — $245 million (such data are cited by Bloomberg).

It is expected that now the Uber Advanced Technologies Group will focus on developing technology for unmanned cars. Recently, the company resumed the test for the first time after the March tragedy.