Uber To Soon Transform Into A Robotics Company.

Uber, one of the world's largest ride-hailing services, soon plans to be overthrown by robots.
I mean, the company which started some years back with the instrumentality of humans, has, not quite long, replaced 45% of the humans with robots. And now, the company has boastfully commented to soon transform the company to a Robotics company.


Speaking with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter at the annual Vanity Fair Summit in San Francisco, Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick on Wednesday, stated that "We're at the very beginning stages of becoming a robotics company".


Meanwhile, Travis was talking about the company's transformation into self-driving cars and how that kind of work takes engineering and science. He explained that "it's been a pretty substantial and wild ride". The company has been affected with lawsuits over how it classifies drivers, if it properly check drivers before sending them out on the road and whether it disregards local laws not just in the US but in many other countries as well. Uber has even been criticized for not doing enough to school its drivers on passengers with disabilities.
A couple of years ago Uber began to look into self-driving cars and that initiative has now become front and center for the company. Last month, Uber launched a small fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburg. Riders in that city can now be picked up by a driverless car that is also attended by a human safety driver.
"When the software is driving the car, you see what the software see," Kalanick said describing what it's like to be in one of these cars. "As we move towards the future, autonomy is a pretty critical thing for us. It's existential."


Source:- Cnet.