[NetEase smart news May 9 news] Despite trouble in Pittsburgh, and entangled in the lawsuit with Waymo, but Uber's ambition was not affected, it opened a new driverless center in Toronto.
Uber has just opened a new office in Toronto, Canada, specializing in driverless business. This is the first time Uber's Advanced Technologies Group has opened an office outside the United States, but its center is still in Pittsburgh.
At the end of last year, the company began pilot testing in Pittsburgh. Despite this, the relationship between Uber and Pittsburgh officials has deteriorated in the past few months, so the company may try to diversify its business to prevent accidents in Pittsburgh.
The situation in Toronto seems to be better, at least for now. Uber's pilotage center in London is headed by Raquel Urtasun, a professor at the University of Toronto and head of the Canadian Center for Machine Learning and Computer Vision Research. Uber has promised to support the Vector Institute, an artificial intelligence research institute founded by Urtason.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said that this support is a way to contribute to Toronto's traffic technology. As far as Pittsburgh is concerned, Uber's situation has not always been very good recently. Not only did drone tests have encountered problems, such as occasional minor accidents, or wrong one-way walks, local officials also accused the company of failing to contribute much to the city’s well-being.
For example, Pittsburgh asked Uber to establish a new transportation link between Carnegie Mellon University and its driverless car test site, which requires $25 million. Uber not only rejected, but also put forward a series of requirements, such as wanting driverless cars to enter the bus lane, and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (Bill Peduto) was reluctant to provide such services. The Uber driver broke the strike of a New York taxi driver after the first immigration ban was issued, and Peduto issued a severe critique of Uber.
What's more, Uber’s unmanned division received more and more attention after its lawsuit with “Waymoâ€. The protagonist Anthony Levandowski recently left his post and no longer does anything related to it. Lewandowski was accused of stealing trade secrets during his tenure at Google. He was also accused of collaborating with Uber to create a false company and was subsequently acquired by Uber to obtain the company’s secrets.
When asked whether Uber was worried, Urtason said she would not engage in anything related to Lidar. If she has any concerns about this, she will not join this team.
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