Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
by ghaff on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:05AM
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>Self driving research can be done India..
Or just not done. There's no reason for Uber to be working on self-driving at this point. Door to door fully autonomous driving in relatively dense areas--i.e. where it makes sense for Uber to operate--is decades away. Autonomous highway driving--which will probably arrive earlier (maybe much earlier)--does absolutely nothing for a would-be automated taxi service.
From the engineering point of view Uber is done. The self driving automation is probably not possible in the next x years. It has a working successful product probably too many developers now working on non-core projects.
Moving it to India they can keep the same numbers employed reduce costs and probably throw away things created there anyways.
My guess is a key lean operations team will remain in sf. Ensuring the system runs and is updated. Self driving research can be done India.. UI screens will be local.