Far from the sunny, wide streets of Phoenix, where Waymo’s self-driving taxis ply their trade, a handful of European startups are developing driverless cars to navigate the clogged, chaotic, rain-swept roads of European cities.
Uber goes to court on Monday to overturn a decision stripping it of its license in London after being ruled unfit to run a taxi service in its most important European market.
The competition authority in Vietnam have yet to make the next moves over a transaction in which Grab acquired Uber Technologies Inc’s Southeast Asian business after asking Grab to report details of the deal.
Uber developed a secret system called Ripley that would lock down staff computers in the event of a police raid, preventing officials from accessing company data.
Swedish car giant Volvo will deliver tens of thousands of self-driving cars to the international Uber taxi service under a framework agreement. With this transaction, the controversial, loss-ridden and lawsuit-plagued US firm is hoping to make the transition from being a taxi app to a major operator of a fleet of self-driving cars.
Uber has taken a step forward in its plan to make autonomous “flying taxis” a reality, signing a contract with Nasa to develop the software to manage them.
Uber and Grab are in a fair competition with traditional taxis, so they operate within the confines of existing laws, said a representative from the Ministry of Transport following the Hanoi Taxis Association proposal to stop the pilot operation of the services.
Authorities in HCM City have instructed ride-hailing firms Uber and Grab to delay any plans they have of expanding their fleets in the southern metropolis.
The pilot program allowing Grab and Uber as well as several local taxi and transportation companies to operate their app-based services in three Vietnamese localities has expanded so rapidly that the transport ministry has been forced to put the brakes on it.
Uber has fired the head of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski, amid the continuing fallout from the engineer’s alleged theft of trade secrets from his former employer, Google.
Uber Technologies intends to set up networks of flying cars in Dallas, Texas and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Holden announced during the Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday.
The Vietnamese government has finally approved Uber's application to trial its ride hailing services, a minister said, after having rejected requests from the company twice since 2015.
The U.S. ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Wednesday it will move its international headquarters in Amsterdam to a larger building ahead of plans to increase staff to 1,000 from 400.
