(Original title: Tesla refused to join forces with Uber to enter autopilot and fight against Apple)
This month, Uber was found guilty of stealing 14,000 confidential documents for stealing Google’s autonomy department’s Waymo trade secrets, which may have caused great trouble for the development of Uber’s automated driving business. Recently, Google announced that it will join Lyot in the US market to enter the autopilot business, which will put a lot of pressure on Uber, which is in a matter of trouble.
According to a new book about Uber, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick called Tesla CEO Elon Musk last year, proposing to run a self-driving car in partnership, but was rejected by Elon Musk.
Next week, Fortune Magazine Senior Editor Adam Lashinsky will release the new book "Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination" (Chinese: "Wild Tour: Exposing Uber's Global Expansion"). This book describes how Uber has been rapidly expanding from a small, unpredictable startup company, and has finally become a platform for cross-border, industry-leading mobile applications.
In the book, the author wrote a lot about Uber's inside story. For example, Kalanick once proposed to Musk after Apple invested $1 billion in the Chinese “cargo trip†software to fight against Apple’s competition.
Kalanick recalled in the book: "I said, 'Look, we should be partners,' but Elon immediately persuades me that this idea is still too early and too unrealistic. Let me insist on the best we do and focus our energy. Otherwise, I will mess up. At this time I knew Tesla was in competition (a taxi service)."
After Musk rejected Kalanick, a Uber deputy CEO learned from an executive at Tesla that the self-driving car was a top priority for Tesla.
Shortly after this call, Musk stated that he would enter the taxi service industry, which means that there will be competition between Tesla and Uber.
A few days later, Musk announced Tesla's 10-year plan, which included proposing a Uber-like service that allows Tesla owners to make money by renting out their Tesla car.
Musk wrote in the plan: "Once automatic driving gets regulatory approval, it means that you will be able to call Tesla from almost anywhere. Just press a button on Tesla's mobile app and you can make it. Adding your own car to Tesla's shared car team and earning money while you work or travel will help offset some of the loans that Tesla needed to pay, and may even make money."
The people around Musk stated that although Musk refused advice from Kalanick, he did not try to persuade Kalaknick to give up on continuing to develop self-driving cars. At the time, Tesla launched Autopilot, a semi-autonomous driving system, and Uber is also researching autopilot technology.
There was a report this month that Uber will establish a new artificial intelligence team in Canada to help improve the software for self-driving cars. The new AI team is part of the Uber Advanced Technology Group, which is responsible for developing most of the autonomous driving technologies. Previously, UBER announced that it had reached a cooperation agreement with Daimler. The two parties will cooperate to explore the application of self-driving cars in shared travel. Last year, Uber entered into a partnership with Volvo to invest $300 million in the development of a self-driving car with fully automated driving capabilities using the Volvo XC90 model.
Now, the combination of automatic driving and taxi services has become the direction that major giants are trying to explore. Following Uber’s lawsuit against Google’s Waymo’s lawsuit, Uber’s two companies, known outside of the company as “heavenly match†in the high-tech field, “conspiredâ€. According to the “New York Times†on May 15th, Waymo has entered into a cooperation agreement with the taxi service start-up company Lyft. Both parties will pilot the project and product development to bring driverless car technology into the mainstream market.
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