Uber autonomous truck division is dead, long live its self-driving cars

© Deanpictures | Dreamstime.com - PROTEST AGAINST UBER

The big news in road freight today is that Uber has cancelled the development of autonomous trucks. The company spin is that it wants to concentrate on the development of its self-driving car technology, but according to this in-depth report in TechCrunch, its is the enormous lawsuit it is facing from Google over alleged theft of autonomous truck designs, following Uber’s $680m purchase of Otto. “Nine months after the acquisition, Uber was embroiled in a trade secrets lawsuit with Waymo, the former ...