Uber Plans 20,000 Robotaxis in Six-Year Rollout with Lucid and Nuro (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/145222/uber-plans-20000-robotaxis-in-six-year-rollout-with-lucid-and-nuro
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/uber-lucid-robotaxi-partnership-300-million-20000-nuro.html
Uber will make multi-hundred-million dollar investments in both partners, including $300 million for Lucid to upgrade its assembly line for integrating Nuro hardware into Gravity vehicles.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/uber-lucid-robotaxi-partnership-300-million-20000-nuro.html
Bye-bye gig workers (Score:2)
Another CEO rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of not having to even pay contractors.
But who's then responsible for the inevitable deaths?
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Rotten premise aside. Is it not more important to you that the number of traffic deaths reduce, not that you can blame someone?
Liability is the dumbest of all the concerns. Who is liable when a human Uber gets in an accident today? Nobody. The drivers blame the car manufacturer. The car manufacturer blames the brake manufacturer. The brake manufacturers blame the driver's negligence in getting the brakes fixed or they claim they never expected the brakes to be mashed that way. You seem to believe that magic
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> As for gig worker jobs .. with cheaper and easier travel/deliveries there'll be more jobs. People can go to restaurants, bars, entertainment, and shopping much easier. Therefore there will be jobs created in those areas.
Ba-dum-tish (fixed that for you).
Re: Bye-bye gig workers (Score:2)
> Who is liable when a human Uber gets in an accident today? Nobody.
Hmm, I'm curious: are you just trolling, or do you really not know how liability works? Because it's usually not nobody. Actually it's **never** nobody. It's almost always the driver (or at least *a* driver, if multiple cars are involved). That's why insurance of some kind is mandatory to drive cars on the road: otherwise the driver might be liable for payouts they might not be able to afford. Sometimes it's a defect in the car, in which case, yes, the manufacturer is liable, but that usually requires a pre
Oh really? (Score:2)
They were saying something similar ~6 years ago. They'll find the edge cases are a bitch and they won't be able to just fire all the drivers to "increase shareholder value" but mainly so the c-suite can get even bigger bonuses.
Ouch! (Score:2)
Blimey - so all those amazing Uber drivers out there have allowed Uber to make so much profit that they can splunge huge amounts of money to essentially rob them of their jobs.
That's just cold, man!
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It's called business. Once the industrial revolution began, people are replacyed by machines at every opportunity.