Google plans to start a taxi on the basis roboavtomobiley Bashny.Net

Google - one of the main investors in the company Uber, which is developing a mobile application for searching, calling and paying a taxi or private drivers. With the application Uber customer reserves a car with a driver and tracks its movement on the smartphone to a specified point.

In August 2013 division of Google Ventures has invested $ 258 million in the Uber. It was the biggest investment in the history of Google Ventures, пишет Bloomberg. It would seem, why search engine companies to create a competitor to their partner? But she plans to do so.

The news is all the more strange because the senior vice president and legal director of Google, David Drummond (David Drummond) joined the Board of Directors Uber in 2013 and still is there.

Nevertheless, there is evidence that Google is going to launch its own mobile app to search for a taxi. According to one of the members of the Board of Directors of Uber, such a possibility they informed David Drummond. According to the source, in the light of this situation, the board is now considering resignation Drummond.

Probably the taxi service will operate on the basis of unmanned vehicles, which now creates Google. Of course, this is not tomorrow. More need to improve the technology and get legal assistance. So in the next couple of years, Uber and owners of other taxis can sleep peacefully, but then they may have to face a formidable competitor.

By the way, the company recently Uber announced , which is also working on the technology of unmanned vehicles.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/245230/