Ford and Volvo won’t be alone in providing self-driving cars to Uber in the future, thanks to a new partnership with Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz.
Eventually, Daimler will lend Uber its self-driving vehicles to help flesh out its autonomous ride-sharing operations. There’s not actually a timetable yet — Uber only said it would happen in “the coming years,” and who the hell knows how long that’ll take?
Before Daimler starts operating autonomous cars in Uber’s fleet, it must first build a, you know, autonomous car. Concepts like this don’t count.
This announcement isn’t exactly earth-shattering, but it reinforces the point that Uber has no interest in spending the money to engineer its own vehicles.
