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Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M by adeelk93 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:59AM (#36968895)
Uber sold off that division years ago, and is no longer focused on self-driving

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/12/uber-sells-self-driving...

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Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M by smcl on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:10AM (#36968948)
Weird, I remember a lot of talk around that time of self-driving cars being their future and the reason why they had such a sky-high valuation. Guess I missed this news mid-Covid
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Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M by harambae on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:59PM (#36977331)
> no longer focused on self-driving

Not quite. More like they're partnering with others and staying internally focused on their core competencies, like any good company does.

Section "Get to know our autonomous partners" https://www.uber.com/us/en/autonomous/

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