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I understand Tesla's rush to market as it wants to sell cars to make money to feed its research/work. So it needs the marketing gimmick/advantage to sell more c

by yalogin 10y ago

I understand Tesla's rush to market as it wants to sell cars to make money to feed its research/work. So it needs the marketing gimmick/advantage to sell more cars. But I don't get what Uber is getting by using partial autonomous vehicles. Their only goal is to replace its fleet with fully autonomous cars. To that end, outside of getting data I don't see anything else. By that logic I would be really surprised if they expanded their partial autonomous offering beyond what they have today.

linkregister 10y ago
It makes sense for Uber because it has unique legal issues. Every PR win and deal with a municipality decreases its headwinds for the next deal it makes with a city. Also it gives Uber an opportunity to debug the experience before actually releasing a fully autonomous vehicle. This service is different from the Tesla autopilot feature since it is aspirationally an autonomous vehicle. In Uber's case, it is expected the driver will have to actually take over in some corner case situations.