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Uber Autonomous Test Truck Adds Lidar
Ride-share provider Uber Technologies Inc. has begun testing an updated version of the autonomous commercial vehicle technology it acquired last year with the purchase of Otto, a San Francisco-based startup.
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Ride-share provider Uber Technologies Inc. has begun testing an updated version of the autonomous commercial vehicle technology it acquired last year with the purchase of Otto, a San Francisco-based startup.
Among the new features is an off-the-shelf, 64-channel spinning lidar array. The vehicle also integrates an assortment of advanced software and sensors developed by Uber’s own Advanced Technologies Group, which oversees the former Otto group.
Uber stopped using the Otto name in May following a trademark dispute with Canada's Otto Motors Co. The company also has been embroiled in a lawsuit brought by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car unit, which claims Uber ended up with thousands of stolen documents about Waymo’s lidar technology.
The lawsuit alleges that the data was taken by Anthony Levandowski when he left Waymo in 2015 to launch Otto. Uber, which acquired Otto last August, fired Levandowski last month. The company insists its research has never used Waymo data.
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