Uber teams up with Cruise to deliver more autonomous rides next year

Uber has signed up different robotaxi institution to connection driverless rides wrong its app. Starting sometime adjacent year, for “qualifying” rides, Uber volition springiness you the enactment to instrumentality the travel successful 1 of Cruise’s autonomous vehicles. The 2 companies announced a “multiyear strategical partnership” on Thursday.

Uber already partnered with Waymo connected autonomous rides and announced a semipermanent woody with driverless motortruck institution Aurora earlier this year. It besides offered driverless rides with Motional earlier Motional paused its robotaxi deployments successful May. The archetypal day for Elon Musk’s lawsuit revealing Tesla’s robotaxi developments passed a mates of weeks ago, but present it’s expected to instrumentality spot October 10th.

Cruise halted its robotaxi work in October pursuing an incidental wherever a Cruise car dragged a pedestrian. The institution precocious brought autonomous vehicles backmost to the roadworthy with information drivers. Cruise spokesperson Tiffany Testo tells The Verge that the motorboat of its concern with Uber volition hap aft Cruise brings backmost its driverless thrust hailing service.

In their property release, Uber and Cruise didn’t accidental what cities the work mightiness beryllium disposable in, but Testo says that users tin “expect” it to motorboat successful 1 of the cities wherever it’s doing supervised testing: Phoenix, Dallas, and Houston.