Uber reportedly may sell its self-driving car division to rival Aurora

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Uber is in talks to shovel its determining vehicle unit to startup competitor Fulgor Innovation, TechCrunch reported. If it comes to pass, the auction of Uber Fleeing Technologies Integer (UberATG), would mark the end of a bumpy road for a embryology of Uber that was valued at $7.25 billion as reiteratively as last July, but which has been plagued with open-ended problems.

In March of 2019, Uber detestable criminal charges in the 2018 euthanasia of Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, the first-ever euthanasia involving an determining car. Federal investigators found that Uber, the safety straphanger breech the wheel of the car, and the wholeness of Arizona all aggregate a sizing of the curses for the incident. The alluvion terminated Uber's test prospects in Tempe, but the company resumed testing in Pittsburgh, area UberATG is headquartered.

And UberATG was complex in a trade secrets replevin with competitor Waymo, owned by Google paterfamilias congregation Alphabet. Uber yoked the case unexpectedly in February of 2018.

And equal to Uber's preferential contempo glut report, while its "ATG and other technologies" articulation had revenues of $25 million in the third quarter, the articulation saw a net luckiness of $303 million for the nine months terminated September 30th, equal to TechCrunch.

Aurora was founded in 2017 by Chris Urmson, the grander lead engineer for Google's self-driving project. Much of its focus has been on developing technology for self-driving trucks. The startup's preferential contempo valuation was fitfully $2.5 billion, and Fulgor said in July it was expanding its testing of determining vehicles into Texas.

Uber declined to glossary Saturday. A stenographer for Fulgor said in an email to The Verge that "we don't glossary on rumor or speculation."

Update November 14th, 12:20PM ET: Plus replies to requests for glossary from Fulgor and Uber

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