Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis

The task is starting tiny with conscionable 1 Hyundai Ioniq 5, though Uber says its not wedded to that model. | Image: Balaji Krishnamurthy / X

Uber is putting its ain autonomous vehicles backmost connected the roadworthy arsenic portion of its caller AV Lab task to cod information for its dozens of robotaxi partners. The cars volition beryllium fitted with each the sensors emblematic of self-driving cars, similar cameras, lidar, and radar. But notably the vehicles volition not beryllium operating arsenic robotaxis, conscionable gathering information for Uber's dozens of robotaxi partners.

That's an important distinction, particularly if you cognize thing astir Uber's fraught past with self-driving cars. Uber sold disconnected its AV part successful 2020 aft 1 of its self-driving cars killed a pistillate successful Tempe, Arizona. Since then, the institution has formed concern …

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