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Here's A Look At Uber Freight, The Company's Long-Haul Trucking Project
Here's A Look At Uber Freight, The Company's Long-Haul Trucking Project-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:39

Uber’s currently with Google’s parent company Alphabet over its self-driving car designs, but the ride-hailing behemoth doesn’t seem to be slowing down just yet. The company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, posted a photo over the weekend of a large semi that appears to be the first look at its long-hauling truck effort, Uber Freight.

As , Uber Freight stems from the company’s acquisition of Otto, a self-driving truck start-up it purchased for $680 million. (Otto’s founder, Anthony Levandowski, is a former employee of Google of stealing 14,000 autonomous tech designs from the company before he left to launch the start-up. Levandowski has since stepped away from Uber’s autonomous driving endeavors.)

At the time, Business Insider reports, an Uber exec said its intention with Uber Freight was to build a marketplace “that would allow self-driving trucks to flourish.”

A long-awaited hearing in the court battle between Uber and Waymo over allegedly stolen…

, Kalanick’s tweet suggests Uber Freight’s plans now appears to include ambitions to own a fleet of semis—which, of course, would be a costly venture. Still, the project has had some successful public demonstrations; last October, an Otto truck . But it’s not clear how many tests have been conducted since. In February, Car & Driver revealed Otto was , a familiar point of .

Despite the ostensibly positive news for Uber, the company could face a setback this week: the judge overseeing Uber’s dispute with Google’s self-driving project is expected to that could halt Uber’s autonomous vehicle program until the case is completed.

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