Uber vs. Google: the battle in the field of unmanned vehicles

The company Uber, who created the eponymous mobile app and is designed to search, order and pay for taxis and private drivers, I decided to sort of redirect its forces and to impose on Google the competition to create unmanned vehicles. It is possible that in a short time on the streets of American cities will be a fleet of unmanned taxi.

Representatives of Uber say that to develop this direction they are not alone, but with the support of Carnegie Mellon, in partnership where both parties plan to create an advanced technologies Center Uber (Uber Advanced Technologies Center) in Pittsburgh. Some of the future projects of the advanced technologies center will include research and development of Autonomous vehicles and systems, automotive safety.

"A partnership with Uber will allow the best experts from our side, and from the University Carnegie Mellon collectively to develop advanced technologies aimed at the development of systems of automotive safety and Autonomous vehicles," reads the company's official blog, where it is added that on the occasion of the signing of the agreement in Pittsburgh in the near future will be specially dedicated for the occasion event.It should be noted that the rumors about the enterprise and went earlier, so the announcement of this partnership should not become a special surprise. Last may, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in an interview that one of the inevitable directions of further development of the company is to develop self-driving cars.

"The reason Uber could be a very costly app to use, is that you pay not only for the car that are traveling. You have to pay for hiring the guy who drives this car," said Kalanick in an interview at the press conference, the Code Conference."If the car no one managed, respectively, and the cost of use of the application would have been lower. It would be lower than owning a car. Now, the challenge is to make the cost of using the app cheaper for everyone than the self-cost of owning a car".Then some of the media said that although the statement does not quite jibe with the policy of the company, which offers to earn third-party drivers, it can be a direct attempt at recruitment of taxi drivers and drivers that provides other road services with a guarantee that with this company they will be able to earn more. In turn, Kalanick dismissed these allegations, explaining that in this case you will need "more than a dozen years in the development business."

As noted by the Verge, Uber is one of the few companies along with Google, Tesla and other automakers found a way and lead projects that their cars will not need drivers. However, the success of these projects will depend on the ability to solve the problems that they faced. We are talking about the development of computer technology, able to identify and respond to the items, objects, and people on the road, the development of radar systems, able to adapt to weather conditions and automatically go and comply with new government regulations on road traffic.

It should be noted that the news about Uber's desire to engage in unmanned vehicles came with the message from the information publisher Bloomberg, which told about the desire of Google to create and promote similar Uber taxi service. And this despite the information about the Google investment in Uber worth over $ 258 million in August 2013 and the Director of the legal Department of Google, David Drummond post in the Board of Directors of the company Uber. In may, Google began offering the possibility of taxi service Uber, via its Google Maps service.

 

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