Trend of Development of Automatic Driving Taxi Possible by Uber Online Distribution Service Uber Summary

ByTimothy Krause

Taxi's online shipping service "UberAlthough it has been rumored for some time that an automatic driving taxi that does not require a taxi driver is developed, a test car considered to be the test vehicle was photographed at last. It will look like this when summarizing the past trajectory of Uber's automatic driving car development entry.

Here's your first look at Uber's test car - Pittsburgh Business Times
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/techflash/2015/05/exclusive-heres-your-first-look-at-ubers-self.html

Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached

Uber Joins the Bidding for Here, Nokia's Digital Mapping Service - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/business/uber-joins-the-bidding-for-here-nokias-digital-mapping-service.html

Uber signed a strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the United States on February 2, 2015 and as a facility to collaborate on automobile safety and automatic driving carUber Advanced Technologies Center (UATC)Announced the establishment of the company. In order to dramatically lower Uber's usage fee, Uber's Travis-Calanic CEO declares to operate in an automated driving car in the future. For this reason, who is that Uber got daunting in the development of automatic driving cars in partnership with CMU with the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), which has participated in the robot car race sponsored by DARPA and has been proven to develop automatic driving cars It was also clear to the eyes of.


According to Karanic CEO, Uber is currently contracting about 160,000 people worldwide and wages to drivers account for the majority of Uber's taxi dispatch service. If an automated taxi that does not require a driver is completed, it is estimated that a taxi fare arranged by Uber can cost cut to 44 cents (about 50 yen) per mile (about 1.6 km) The desire to make the driver a payment box to dramatically lower it is strong to Uber. Also,Customer rape case by driverIn order to eliminate repeated scandals, the necessity of developing an automatic driving taxi is being screamed.

Originally, Google's venture capital Google Ventures is actively investing in Uber, Google's David Drumund CLO is on Uber's director, Google Maps and Uber apps collaborate, Google and Uber Because it was a honeymoon relationship,Automatic driving car that Google advances developmentUber utilized Uber's automatic driving taxi plan was realized by utilizing it. However, it is believed that Uber will definitely become a crash in the field of automatic driving cars, as Google has stepped up its own automated driving car development, and in the future it will not only be Uber, It is rumored that Google will also enter the taxi business by utilizing automatic driving car technology, and the development competition of automatic driving taxis is expected to increase severely.

Whether Google starts its own taxi dispatch service, Uber also resists this - GIGAZINE


Uber officially announced a partnership with CMU, it has already been found out that about 50 researchers have been pulled out of NREC, including top runners of automatic driving technology. This is about one third of the staff of NREC, and it is better to see it as full incorporation of CMU 's automated driving technology development team by Uber rather than Uber - CMU' s alliance. Since NREC 's robot development technology has a character of military research, there is a history that a large amount of research expenses have been brought in from the country, so Uber intends to incorporate the technology and researchers up to date There are criticizing voices raised in part.

Uber then leased the site of a commercial facility in Pittsburgh close to CMU and started research as a development base for UATC. In May 2015, the test vehicle written "Uber Advanced Technologies Center" on the car body was filmed. This UATC test vehicle is equipped with huge cameras and sensors on the roof and it is presumed that we are testing automatic driving technology.


On the other hand, in order to complete automatic driving taxi technology, it is thought that not only the development of vehicles that can run autonomously but also the map application is necessary as "infrastructure" to help autonomous driving. Map information is indispensable in automatic driving technology because it enables more safe and accurate autonomous driving by transmitting accurate map information to the automatic driving car.

In this regard, Google, which precedes the development of automatic driving technology, already has Google map, which is an advanced map application. Incidentally,Rumors of automobile development are constantly AppleIt seems to be because we are anticipating that the map infrastructure will become more important in the future as we develop the map application on our own. Uber who does not have map infrastructure, some Nokia's map service "Evaluated as having high technology to surpass Google Maps"HEREIt is considered to be in the process of acquiring negotiations by presenting an amount of 3 billion dollars (about 360 billion yen) in order to hold it in hand.


Uber, who pulled out CMU's senior researcher,Pull out Mr. Rachel Wettstone, senior vice president of Google's communications & policy and take over as Uber's strategic senior vice president of UberWe also have excellent talent from Google, etc. The rival showdown between Uber and Google will continue to be increasingly intense over the development of an automated driving car that is estimated to be a $ 42 billion (about 5.1 trillion yen) market by the Boston Consulting Group by 2025 I am afraid that it will increase the quality.