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Toyota to invest $500 mn in Uber to develop self-driving cars; duo to catch up to rivals in autonomous driving business
•Toyota, one of the world’s largest carmakers, and Uber, the leading ride-hailing service, are widely seen as lagging the competition in developing self-driving cars.
Uber advised to sell off its self-driving unit after incurring losses of up to $200 mn
•Uber is due to release its second-quarter earnings to investors.
Uber creating a standalone business out of its long-haul trucking business
•As part of Uber’s reorganization, the co-founders and employees of Otto will receive an equity stake in Uber Freight.
Apple hires Waymo's self-driving engineer Jamie Waydo to further its autonomous vehicle ambitions
•Apple has hired a senior self-driving car engineer Waymo, a sign that it maintains autonomous vehicle ambitions.
Elon Musk confirms that Tesla's Autopilot will get a 'full self-driving feature' in August
•Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that its Autopilot driver assistance system will get full self-driving features following a software upgrade in August.
Uber shuts down self-driving operations in Arizona two months after fatal crash
•Uber has said it considers self-driving technology important to the future of its ride services, although it is not clear how it fits into the plans of Dara Khosrowshahi.
Watch: Who has the best self-driving tech out there? Hint: It's not Google or Tesla #DailyDope
Sheldon •Nikita Rana talks about how the self-driving technology of Mobileye, a company based out of Israel, is cheaper and safer than Google's or Tesla's.
Self-driving Uber vehicle kills woman in Phoenix; company stops road testing in US, Canada
•Depending on who is found to be at fault, the accident could have far-reaching consequences for the development of self-driving vehicles, which have been billed as potentially safer than cars with humans at the wheel.
Major US automakers urge Senate to take up stalled bill aimed at speeding up deployment and testing of self-driving cars
•The Senate bill would allow automakers to each sell up to 80,000 self-driving vehicles annually within three years.
Ford launches self-driving pilot delivery program in collaboration with Domino's in Miami
•Ford plans to provide a self-driving vehicle service to multiple partners, who in turn would offer it to their customers under their own brand names.