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Pivoting toward autonomous vehicle marketplace model
For most of its life, Uber has been a marketplace for human drivers with their own cars. On May 6, 2026, the company laid out the clearest version yet of a different model: a marketplace for robotaxis it neither owns nor operates. Alongside its first-quarter results—gross bookings of $53.7 billion, up 25% from a year earlier—Uber said it would deploy 10,000 Rivian R2 robotaxis on its network through Hertz's Oro Mobility unit, starting in San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
Updated 2 hours ago
Assembling a portfolio of autonomous vehicle partners while investing directly in fleet ownership
Uber sold its self-driving car unit in 2020 after burning billions and killing a pedestrian. Now it's spending up to $1.25 billion to do it all over again — this time with Rivian building the cars. The deal commits Uber to purchasing up to 50,000 autonomous R2 sport utility vehicles for deployment across 25 cities by 2031, beginning in San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
Updated Mar 20
Transitioning to autonomous vehicle marketplace operator with partnerships across two dozen AV companies
Nvidia and Uber announced a plan to deploy 100,000 Level 4 autonomous robotaxis across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, using Nvidia's new DRIVE Hyperion 10 computing platform and an open-source reasoning model called Alpamayo. Five automakers—BYD, Geely, Stellantis, Lucid, and Mercedes-Benz—will manufacture vehicles with Nvidia's hardware pre-installed. Commercial rides begin in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027.
Updated Mar 17
Committed to Trump Accounts contributions
The United States has never offered universal investment accounts to children. Starting July 4, 2026, every American born between 2025 and 2028 will receive $1,000 from the Treasury Department deposited into a stock market index fund—accessible at age 18 for education, homebuying, or starting a business. Over 1 million families enrolled in the program's first week.
Updated Jan 31
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