Toyota teams up with Uber to build self-driving cabs in $500m deal

Uber‘s efforts to develop self-driving vehicles been flagging of late – but the company’s just received a shot in the arm from Toyota, in the form of a $500 million investment, and a partnership to build autonomous car tech together. The plan is to create a fleet of self-driving Toyota Sienna minivans (shown above) in an effort to make autonomous-mobility as a service, aka Autono-MaaS, a reality. To that end, Toyta will integrate its Guardian safety support system and Mobility Services Platform into those vehicles, with a view to begin pilot testing them on Uber‘s network in 2021. Dr. Gill…

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https://ift.tt/2ME2SE9 Abhimanyu Ghoshal August 28, 2018 at 03:00AM