For all its heat, the fire that is Uber in 2017 hasn't scorched everything. While the nigh-apocalyptic past six months have felled founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, and sparked questions about its ability to keep its employees safe, let alone happy, Uber's self-driving car program seems to be doing just fine.
It's a rare but vital bit of good news for Uber, for which autonomy is an existential question. If another company figures out how to operate a taxi service without paying drivers and Uber cannot, it's lights out, unicorn. “What would happen if we weren’t a part of that future? If we weren’t part of the autonomy thing?” Kalanick told Business Insider last year. “Then the future passes us by.”
Now, Uber's self-driving program hasn't been unscathed. It faces a vicious lawsuit from Waymo, Google's self-driving car spinoff, which accuses it of using stolen IP to advance its autonomy research. Last month, Uber fired Anthony Levandowski, its self-driving car lead who allegedly brought that IP over from Google. In the past year, it has lost talented employees to competitors like Argo AI, owned partly by Ford, and Aurora, a startup run by former Google autonomous vehicle head Chris Urmson.
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