Travis Kalanick thinks that Uber has messed up: “I would like us to have an autonomous driving sharing product”

Travis Kalanick, the former Uber CEO, clearly said on Wednesday: he thinks that the company’s decision to abandon his autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at Summit of abundance To the, “look, [new management] killed the autonomous car project that we had. At the time, we were really only behind Waymo, but we probably catch up, and we were going to spend them in a short time. . . I did not direct the company when it happened, but you know, you could say: “I would have liked that we have an autonomous carpooling product at the moment. It would be great. “”

Uber has sold its autonomous unit in a Fire to the autonomous technological developer Aurora in 2020, three years after Kalanick was forced to resign. At the time, it made sense; Autonomous driving was bleeding from money and Uber had already spent hundreds of millions of dollars for the effort. Now, Waymo’s autonomous cars are tools in the bay region, Los Angeles, Phoenix and appearing in new markets.

Waymo recently in partnership In Austin with Uber, and Uber bets that its platform will be essential to develop the service. But business is business and partnerships weaken. If Waymo decides that he does not need an intermediary, Uber, once the future of transport, could be stuck upside down.