Uber is shutting down its self-driving truck program, nearly six months after it settled a lawsuit from Waymo, the Google spinoff that accused Uber of using its proprietary designs. Uber says it will keep working on self-driving vehicles, but it will now focus solely on cars.
“We’ve decided to stop development on our self-driving truck program and move forward exclusively with cars,” said Eric Meyhofer, the head of Uber’s advanced technologies unit.
The move comes after Uber has spent roughly $925 million in recent years on its effort to create a viable line of self-driving freight trucks — an initiative that was seen as having the potential to remake the trucking industry.
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