It is confirmed — 2017 is the year of the vertical take-off and landing aircraft. This time, ridesharing media darling Uber readies its Uber Elevate VTOL aircraft summit in Dallas for an eventual service it is calling Uber Elevate. The event promises leading industry figures and what could be tomorrow’s on-demand VTOL taxi stars.
As we reported previously, Waymo/Google is currently in the process of suing Uber over the alleged theft of 9.7 GB of confidential materials relating to Waymo’s self-driving vehicle tech. The thief in this story is claimed to be former engineer Anthony Levandowski, who now works for Uber.
Our head of state seems to have no education or experience with solid information on the transit needs of the public at large. Nor has he taken the time to find it. He has not considered the value of good transit, as an aid to traffic concerns, employment, education, ecological issues, and more.
One of the main figures behind Uber’s self-driving vehicle development efforts, vice president of global vehicle programs Sherif Marakby, has left Uber, the company revealed on Monday.
Uber’s a strange company in many ways, even for the tech industry, with company execs seemingly forced to deal with the fallout from a new PR scandal every other week or so. … This time, the scandal involves the company’s use of a covert software-based program dubbed “Hell” — which was focused on tracking Lyft drivers and “winning over” those who drove for Uber as well.
A long list of ecological ills come from the neverending stream of motorists burning millions of barrels of oil a day in the US alone — carcinogenic air and water, a destabilized climate, a dying Great Barrier Reef, and an overall threat to human life itself.
Newly published statistics from California show that Uber’s self-driving cars are far and away the worst of the 6 major firms testing in the state with regard to disengagement rates — the rates at which drivers/engineers are forced to take control of the car because of limitations or problems with the self-driving tech.
Hello again, listeners, and thanks for bearing with us as we try to figure out how to professionalize our voices and get back onto a regular schedule! This episode’s recording date was March 1st. Just think of us as beaming to you from, oh, one-twelfth of a light-year away. 🙂
As an update on our earlier coverage revealing that Uber had put testing of its self-driving tech on hold following an accident in Tempe, Arizona (that wasn’t caused by the Uber vehicle), it seems that the company has already resumed testing once again.
Uber has temporarily suspended its self-driving vehicle testing following an accident in Tempe, Arizona, according to recent reports. To be clear, though, Uber’s self-driving Volvo wasn’t at fault — the driver of a different vehicle (that caused the crash) failed to yield to the Uber Volvo.
