The driving service broker Above wants to become a robotaxi provider-and would therefore compete with the drivers on the platform. In the next six years, at least 20,000 self-driving cars based on SUV from the electric car manufacturer Lucid are to be introduced in different countries. The vehicles will belong to Uber or the fleet partners of the online service.
About previously demonstrated about ambitions to become the leading platform for robotaxis from various developers. In some US cities there are self-driving cars of the Google-Sister Waymo Already bookable via the Uber app. In May the Manager Magazin reported in a cover story, How to counter the robotaxi attack
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Also robotaxis from Volkswagen should come to the platform. Only this week also announced that outside the USA Self -driving cars from the Chinese company Baidu are to be conveyed.
To a certain extent, history seems to be repeated: Manager Magazin reported on Uber’s plans in 2016, lose a six-digit number of autonomously controlling S-classes from Mercedes. A potential billion -in deal. Only from the deal as from fully autonomous S-Classes has never become.
$ 300 million for conversion
The SUV model named Gravity is the second vehicle of the Tesla-Aus challenger Lucid, who previously sold low quantities. However, the company emphasizes that with the financing of the state investment fund of Saudi Arabia as a major shareholder, you have a long breath. The cars are to be autonomous through the technology of the American robot car developer Nuro. Among other things, Lucid receives $ 300 million from Uber for capacity to install the equipment.