Uber lascia la Gig Economy: punta 10 mld sui robotaxi | EUROtoday

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As reported this morning by the Financial Times, Uber has invested extra 10 billion {dollars} within the buy of hundreds of self-driving autos and in buying stakes within the firms that develop them, abandoning its capital-light “gig economy” enterprise mannequin to keep away from competitors from robotaxi.

Reuters was not instantly in a position to confirm the report. Uber didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Reuters.

The 2028 objective

Uber is positioning itself as a market for a number of robotaxi operators and has partnered with a lot of the autonomous car business, together with Baidu, Rivian and Lucid, and has outlined plans to launch robotaxi companies in at the least 28 cities by 2028.

The funding plan

These offers put Uber on monitor to speculate greater than $2.5 billion in fairness holdings and spend extra $7.5 billion in robotaxi fleets within the coming years, the Financial Times reported, citing its personal calculations primarily based on estimates from analysts and sources near Uber’s offers. The agreements are topic to the achievement of sure implementation milestones by the companions.

Interest in driverless taxis has soared in current months, after years of unfulfilled guarantees, with synthetic intelligence and know-how partnerships providing hope of fixing advanced visitors situations extra shortly and mitigating excessive prices.