>No, the entire promise was to eventually have a fleet of autonomous vehicles doing the driving. No, to the best of my knowledge, the push towards autonomy cam

>No, the entire promise was to eventually have a fleet of autonomous vehicles doing the driving. No, to the best of my knowledge, the push towards autonomy came after they realized that they would struggle to get profitability through scale. Just look at their first pitch deck[1] from 2008, there's no mention of autonomy. They didn't really start pursuing autonomy until around 2015, when they finally started hiring researchers for that[2]. [1]https://techcrunch.com/gallery/here-is-ubers-first-pitch-deck/slide/20/ https://techcrunch.com/gallery/here-is-ubers-first-pitch-dec... [2]https://archive.is/pklu6 https://archive.is/pklu6