"Despite the name, Uber is not returning to developing its own robotaxis, which it stopped doing after one of its test vehicles killed a pedestrian in 2018. (Uber ultimately sold off the division in 2020 in a complex deal with Aurora.) But it will send its own cars out into cities adorned with sensors to collect data for partners like Waymo, Waabi, Lucid Motors, and others - though no contracts are signed just yet."
"Right now, the size of an autonomous vehicle company's fleet creates a physical limit to how much data it can collect. And while many of these companies create simulations of real-world environments to hedge against edge cases, nothing beats driving on actual roads - and driving a lot - when it comes to discovering all the strange, difficult, and flat-out unexpected scenarios that cars wind up in."
Uber will make real-world driving data available to more than 20 autonomous-vehicle partners through a new division called Uber AV Labs. Uber is not returning to in-house robotaxi development after a 2018 test-vehicle fatality and the 2020 sale of its self-driving division to Aurora. Uber will deploy sensor-equipped cars to collect data for partners such as Waymo, Waabi, and Lucid Motors, though no contracts are signed yet. The autonomous-driving industry is shifting from rules-based systems toward reinforcement learning, increasing the value of large quantities of real-world driving data. Fleet size limits each company's data collection, and simulations cannot fully replicate rare, unexpected scenarios.
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